Book description
Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been hailed by Gabriel Josipovici
as 'Austria's finest postwar writer' and by George Steiner as 'one
of the masters of contemporary European fiction.' Faber Finds is
proud to reissue a selection of four of Bernhard's finest novels.
Extinction, Bernhard's last published novel, is the story
of Franz-Josef Murau-intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian
land-owning family-who lives in Rome in self-imposed exile,
surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On
returning from his sister's wedding on the family estate of
Wolfsegg, having resolved never to go home again, Murau receives a
telegram informing him of the death of his parents and brother in a
car crash. Not only must he now go back, he must do so as the master
of Wolfsegg; and he must decide its fate.
Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) won many of the most prestigious
literary prizes in Europe, including the Austrian State Prize, the
Breman and Bruchner Prizes and Le Pix Seguier. Among his novels are
The Loser
,
Concrete, and Extinction, all of which are available in
Faber Finds.
