So why haven't you read the most important post-war

whose that?

>>8491370
thomas bernhard familia

He's great, but lit is way too stupid for his work.

Bernhard is brilliant. Love Correction and The Loser.

>>8491855
Bernhard is fringe meme tier on this board dude.

dunno. where do i start?

>>8491880
this. he gets referenced fairly frequently
>>8491872
have you ever read extinction? i think its his Meisterwerk

>>8491880
In the way John Hawkes is. Barely anyone has read him, a decent amount know about him.

>>8491899
Have not but have been meaning to check it out for a couple years along with The Lime Works.

He's my most read author (16 books).

>>8491352
Because they're busy with memes. Thomas is based.

Bernhard is great. If you´re interested in pessimism/nihilism/Schopenhauer you should give him a try. Great prose (dunno about the translations though). Would recommend >Frost<, >Das Kalkwerk< or >Verstörung< for beginners.

>His main protagonists, often scholars or, as he calls them, Geistesmenschen (spirit-people), denounce everything that matters to the Austrian in contumacy-filled tirades against a "stupid populace". He also attacks the state (often called "Catholic-National-Socialist"), generally respected institutions such as Vienna's Burgtheater, and much-loved artists. His work also continually deals with the isolation and self-destruction of people striving for an unreachable perfection, since this same perfection would mean stagnancy and therefore death. Anti-Catholic rhetoric is not uncommon.

>One of the more controversial lines called Austria "a brutal and stupid nation ... a mindless, cultureless sewer which spreads its penetrating stench all over Europe." Heldenplatz, as well as the other plays Bernhard wrote in these years, were staged at Vienna's famous Burgtheater by the controversial director Claus Peymann.

>Even in death Bernhard caused disturbance by his, as he supposedly called it, posthumous literary emigration, by disallowing all publication and stagings of his work within Austria's borders. The International Thomas Bernhard Foundation, established by his executor and half-brother Dr. Peter Fabjan, has subsequently made exceptions, although the German firm of Suhrkamp remains his principal publisher.

What was his fucking problem?

>>8492625
existence

>>8492625
Evidently, Austria.

>>8492625
He loved shitposting.

>tfw ur best friend is almost entirely fluent and conversationally proficient in italian, french, and latin; and can read ancient greek and u got a c+ in german 1 cuz u were doing too much ketamine and trying to find pc88 dating sim fan translations
i rly liked the loser to say the least

>>8492720
>conversationally fluent in latin

Yeah, have fun in the Vatican City.

>>8492725
of course that's where he learned it

A master memester.

I've read Wittgenstein's Nephew and it was brilliant. Correction is in my queue.

I tried Frost but quit after 100 pages or so. Had no idea what was going on. Should I try one of his other works or just come to terms with my inferior intellect?

>>8492625
>What was his fucking problem?
Austria being shit.

>>8492625
Austria getting off lightly despite their crimes in WWII.

About to start The Lime Works, I'm very excited about it. I finished Walking yesterday and loved it.

I've read The Loser and I thought it was pretty dull. I respect him for sticking to the gimmick through the whole book, but still it wasn't that interesting. Supposedly he was hated in Austria because he criticized it so much, but it's really lame meme-tier "Austrians r so smelly!" stuff. I like my misanthropists miserable.

>>8491352
Attatürk?

>>8491855
2 true

I have The Correction but Berhnard seems incredibly overrated to me.

German guilt + Schopenhauerian anti-natalism? Zzzzzz...boooooooring....

>muh guilt
>muh ebil german