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Thomas Bernhard was a 20th-century Austrian playwright and novelist. Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Music — The universal language of melody, rhythm, and harmony

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“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death”
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“All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.”
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