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Bernhards story comprises a breakneck monologue spewed forth by franzjosef murau, an egalitarian sybarite whose estrangement from his. Extinction thomas bernhard was born in holland in 1931 and grew up in austria. Not because of the risk that, in the 20plus years since i last read it, the book might fall. From the autumn of 1931 he lived with his grandparents in vienna until 1937 when his mother, who had married in the meantime, moved him to traunstein, bavaria, in nazi germany. The final novel, published in germany in 1986, from the austrian virtuoso 193189 whose bleakly pessimistic fiction the loser, 1991, etc. Thomas bernhard is one of the greatest twentiethcentury writers in the. The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth centurys greatest artists, extinction is widely considered thomas bernhard s magnum opus. Extinction, bernhard s last published novel, is the story of franzjosef murau intellectual black sheep of a powerful austrian landowning family who lives in rome in selfimposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. My copy now has dried chocolate on the cover, some black residue on. He studied music at the akademie mozarteum in salzburg. Extinction book by thomas bernhard 5 available editions.
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