Bibliography
originally compiled by
Anja Zeidler
and
Stephen Mitchelmore
with substantial additions by
Garry Bates
I. Primary Materials
  Gargoyles, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970.

"The Joiner" (a story), translated by David Horrocks, in Parallel Text: German Short Stories 2, Penguin Books Ltd, London, 1976.

Correction, translated by Sophie Wilkins, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1979.

Gathering Evidence, translated by David McLintock, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1985.

Wittgenstein’s Nephew, translated by Ewald Osers, Quartet Books Ltd., London, 1986.

The Lime Works, translated by Sophie Wilkins, University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Cutting Timber, translated by Ewald Osers, Quartet Books Ltd, London, 1988.

Woodcutters, translated by David McLintock, University of Chicago Press, 1989. (another translation of the above book)

Concrete, translated by Trans. David McLintock, Quartet Books Ltd, London, 1989.

Old Masters, translated by Ewald Osers, Quartet Books Ltd, London, 1989.

Histrionics: Three Plays, translated by Peter Jansen and Kenneth Nothcott, University of Chicago Press, 1990.

The Cheap-Eaters, translated by Ewald Osers, Quartet Books Ltd., London, 1990.

The Loser, translated by Jack Dawson, Quartet Books Ltd., London, 1992.

Yes, translated by Ewald Osers, Quartet Books Ltd., London
1992.

On the Mountain, translated by Russell Stockman, Quartet Books Ltd, London, 1993.

Extinction, translated by David McLintock, Quartet Books Ltd., London, 1995.

The Voice Imitator, translated by Kenneth Northcott, University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Heldenplatz, a play, translated by Gita Honnegger and published in Conjunctions:33, Fall 1999.
http://www.conjunctions.com/conj33.htm

Three Novellas: Amras, Playing Watten, Walking, translated by Peter Janse, Kenneth Northcott, and Brian Evenson, University of Chicago Press, 2003.

II. Secondary Materials
A. Books on Thomas Bernhard
 

Calandra, Denis. New German dramatists: a study of Peter Handke, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Heiner Müller, Thomas Brasch, Thomas Bernhard and Botho Strauss. London: Macmillan, 1983.

Dowden, Stephen D., Understanding Thomas Bernhard, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0872497593/

Hens, Gregor, Thomas Bernhards Trilogie der Künste. Der Untergeher, Holzfällen, Alte Meister. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1999.
A short summary on the publisher’s site:
http://www.boydell.co.uk/3496.HTM

Honegger, Gitta Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian, New Haven: Yale UP, 2001.

Konzett, Matthias, (ed and introd), A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002.
The introduction on line:
http://www.boydell.co.uk/pdfs/chwtb.pdf
A short summary on the publisher’s site:
http://www.boydell.co.uk/3956.HTM

--------- The Rhetoric of National Dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek, Rochester, N : Camden House, 2000.
A short summary on the publisher’s site:
http://www.boydell.co.uk/3248.HTM


Long, J. J., The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: Form and Its Function, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2001.
Short summary here:
http://www.boydell.co.uk/4018.HTM

Markolin, Caroline; Hartweg, Petra (tr); Skwara, Erich Wolfgang (afterword), Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather Johannes Freumbichler: 'Our Grandfathers are Our Teachers', Riverside, CA: Ariadne, 1993.
Info at Amazon
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Martin, Charles W., The Nihilism of Thomas Bernhard: The Portrayal of Existential and Social Problems in His Prose Works, Amsterdam & Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1995. 277 pp.

Special Thomas Bernhard Issue, Modern Austrian Literature, 1988; 21(3-4)
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~jvansant/specialissues.pdf

Special Section on Thomas Bernhard, Pequod: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and Literary Criticism, 1992; 33: 52-133

Essay and Chapters of Books
  Anderson, Mark, “Notes on Thomas Bernhard,” Raritan: A Quarterly Review. New Brunswick, NJ. 1987 Summer; 7(1): 81-96.

Anderson, Mark M., “Fragments of a Deluge: The Theater of Thomas Bernhard's Prose,” Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 119-35.

Anonymous, [Thomas Bernhard] Book Forum: The Review for Art, Fiction, and Culture. 2001 Fall; 8(3): 17-23.

Barry, Thomas F., “On Paralysis and Transcendence in Thomas Bernhard,” Modern Austrian Literature. 1988; 21(3-4): 187-200.

Barthofer, Alfre,” The Plays of Thomas Bernhard: A Report,” Modern Austrian Literature. 1978; 11(1): 21-48.

Bostick, Alan D., “Thomas Bernhard: An Appreciation on the Occasion of His Death,” The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1990 Spring; 10(1): 289-294.

Bozzi, Paola, “Homeland, Death, and Otherness in Thomas Bernhard's Early Lyrical Works,”in Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 71-87.

Brokoph Mauch, Gudrun, “Thomas Bernhard,” in Daviau, Donald G. (ed.). Major Figures of Contemporary Austrian Literature. New York : Peter Lang, 1987, p. 89-115.

Burgin, Richard, “Notes on Concrete: Of Dostoevsky and Dogs,” Pequod: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and Literary Criticism. 1992; 34: 174-79.

Carpenter, Charles A., “The Plays of Bernhard, Bauer, and Handke: A Checklist of Major Critical Studies,” Modern Drama. 1981 Jan.; 23(4): 484-491.

Cousineau, Thomas J., "Thomas Bernhard," Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XXI, No. 2, 2001, pp. 41-70.

Craft, Robert, “The Comedian of Horror,” The New York Review of Books. 1990 Sept 27; 37(14): 40-48.

Craig, D.A., “The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: A Report.” German Life and Letters. 1972; 25: 343-53.

D'Adamo, Thomas, “A Reader's Guide,” Book Forum: The Review for Art, Fiction, and Culture. 2001 Fall; 8(3): 20-23.

Daviau,-Donald-G, “The Reception of Thomas Bernhard in the United States,” Modern Austrian Literature (MAL). Riverside, CA. 1988; 21(3-4): 243-276.

Dierick, Augustinus P., “Thomas Bernhard’s Austria: neurosis, symbol or expedient?” Modern Austrian Literature 1979, 1, p. 73-93.

Dierick, Augustinus P., „Die verrückte Magdalena. An early short story by Thomas Bernhard, German Life and Letters 1981, p. 267-271.

Doherty, Monika, “Discourse Theory and the Translation of Clefts between English and German,” A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, in Kenesei,-Istvan (ed.,preface, and introd.); Harnish, Robert M. (ed., preface, and introd.); Gervain, Judit (assistant, ed.). Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins, 2001, 273-92.

Dowden, Stephen D., “A Testament Betrayed: Bernhard and His Legacy,” in Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 51-67.

Dowden, Steve, “Thomas Bernhard's Austria,” Partisan Review. 1994 Fall; 61(4): 624-27

Eben, Michael C., “Thomas Bernhard's Frost: Early Indications of an Austrian Demise,” Neophilologus. 1985 Oct.; 69(4): 590-603.

Edwards, Thomas S. "Fools and Charlatans: Translating Thomas Bernhard." Translation Review No. 30/31, 1989. pp. 61-65.

Eisner, Nicholas, “Theatertheater/Theaterspiele: The Plays of Thomas Bernhard,” Modern Drama. 1987 Mar.; 30(1): 104-114.

Esslin, Martin, “Beckett and Bernhard: A Comparison,” Modern Austrian Literature. 1985; 18(2): 67-78.

Esslin, Martin, “A Drama of Disease and Derision: The Plays of Thomas Bernhard,” Modern Drama. 1981 Jan.; 23(4): 367-384.

Federico, Joseph A., “Millenarianism, Legitimation, and the National Socialist Universe in Thomas Bernhard's Vor dem Ruhestand,” The Germanic Review. 1984 Fall; 59(4): 142-148.

Fetz, Gerald A., “The Works of Thomas Bernhard: 'Austrian Literature'?,” Modern Austrian Literature. 1984; 17(3-4): 171-192.

----------, “Kafka and Bernhard: Reflections on Affinity and Influence,” Modern Austrian Literature. 1988; 21(3-4): 217-241.

----------, “Thomas Bernhard and the 'Modern Novel',” in Bullivant, Keith (ed.). The Modern German Novel. Leamington: Berg, 1987, p. 89-108.

Franklin, Ruth, "The Art of Extinction: The bleak laughter of Thomas Bernhard." 2006, The New Yorker, December 26.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/12/25/061225crbo_books?currentPage=all

Frederico, Joseph, “Heimat, Death, and the Other in Thomas Bernhard's Frost and Verstörung,” Modern Austrian Literature. 1996; 29(3-4): 223-42.

Gelus, Marjorie, „The Advantage of Death: Thomas Bernhard's Attaché an der franzosischen Botschaft und An der Baumgrenze,“ Modern Austrian Literature. 1988; 21(3-4): 69-88.

Godwin Jones, Robert, “The Terrible Idyll: Thomas Bernhard's Das Kalkwerk,” Germanic Notes. 1982; 13(1): 8-10.

Gorner, Rudiger,” The Broken Window Handle: Thomas Bernhard's Notion of Weltbezug,” in Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 89-103.

Gorner, Rudiger, “The Excitement of Boredom: Thomas Bernhard,” in Sebald, W. G. (ed., pref., introd.). A Radical Stage: Theatre in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s. Oxford : Berg, 1988, p. 161-173.

Griesemer, John, “An Actor Reads Bernhard,” Pequod: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and Literary Criticism. 1992; 33: 113-23.

Gross, Robert F.,Jr, “'The Greatest Uncertainty': The Perils of Performance in Thomas Bernhard's Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige,” Modern Drama. 1981 Jan.; 23(4), 385-392.

Gruber, William E., "Sights unseen: withholding information in the plays of Thomas Bernhard." Goliath, Gale Group, Cengage Learning, published on line March 22, 2002.
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-1562580_ITM

Hoesterey, Ingeborg, “Visual Art as Narrative Structure: Thomas Bernhard's Alte Meister,” Modern Austrian Literature. 1988; 21(3-4): 117-122.

Hoffmeister, Donna L., “Post-Modern Theater: A Contradiction in Terms? Handke, Strauss, Bernhard and the Contemporary Scene,” Monatshefte für Deutscheunterricht, Deutsche Sprache undLiteratur. 1987 Winter; 79(4): 424-438.

Honegger, Gitta, “Acoustic Masks: Strategies of Language in the Theater of Canetti, Bernhard, and Handke,” Modern Austrian Literature. 1985; 18(2): 57-66.

--------------, “Wittgenstein's Children: The Writings of Thomas Bernhard,” Yale School of Drama. 1983 Winter; 15(1): 58-63.

---------------, “Language Speaks. Anglo-Bernhard: Thomas Bernhard in Translation,” p. 169-85 in Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 169-85.

---------------, “The Stranger Inside the Word: From Thomas Bernhard's Plays to the Anatomical Theater of Elfriede Jelinek,” in Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 137-48.

----------------, “Bernhard Minetti as Bernhard's Minetti,” Yale School of Drama 2000; 30(1): 49-87.

----------------, “Fools on the Hill: Thomas Bernhard's Mise-en-Scene,”  Performing Arts Journal. 1997 Sept; 19(3(57)): 34-48.

---------------, “Thomas Bernhard,” Partisan Review.1991 Summer; 58(3): 493-505.

Hornung, Alfred, “Reading One/Self: Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, John Barth, Alain Robbe-Grillet; Sel. Papers Presented at Workshop on Postmodernism at XIth Internat. Compar. Lit. Cong., Paris, 20-24 Aug. 1985,

in Calinescu, Matei (ed.); Fokkema, Douwe (ed.). Exploring Postmodernism. Amsterdam : Benjamins, 1987, p. 175-198.

---------------, “Fantasies of the Autobiographical Self: Thomas Bernhard, Raymond Federman, Samuel Beckett,” Journal of Beckett Studies. (1989); 11-12: 91-107.

Ibsch, Elrud, “From Hypothesis to Korrektur: Refutation as a Component of Postmodern Discourse,” Papers presented at Workshop on Postmodernism, Sept. 21-231984, Univ. of Utrecht, in Fokkema, Douwe Wessel (ed.); Bertens, Hans Willem (ed.). Approaching Postmodernism. Amsterdam : Benjamins, 1986, p. 119-133.

----------------, “The Refutation of Truth Claims,” in Bertens, Hans (ed., foreword, and notes); Fokkema, Douwe (ed., foreword, and notes); Valdes, Mario J. (preface). International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary Practice. Amsterdam, Netherlands : Benjamins, 1997, p. 265-72.

Indiana, Gary, “Thomas Bernhard,” Book Forum: The Review for Art, Fiction, and Culture. 2001 Fall; 8(3): 17-18.

Jeutter, Ralf, “Polarity and Breathing-Aspects of Thomas Bernhard's Plays,” in Finlay, Frank (ed.); Jeutter, Ralf (ed.). Centre Stage: Contemporary Drama in Austria. Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, 1999, p. 181-92.

Jopling, Michael, “'Es gibt ja nur Gescheitertes': Bernhard as Company for Beckett,” Journal of European Studies. 1997 Mar; 27(1 (105)): 49-71.

Joyce, Steven J., “The Denial of Alterity: Malaise and Polyphony in Thomas Bernard's Heldenplatz,” in Bialas, Zbigniew (ed.); Krajka, Wieslaw (ed.). East-Central European Traumas and a Millennial Condition. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1999, p. 59-86.

Joyce, Steven, “Kismet and Continuities: Post-modernism and Thomas Bernhard's Der Theatermacher,” Colloquia Germanica: Internationale Zeitschrift für Germanistik. Lexington, KY. 1991; 24(1): 24-37.

Kersten, Lee, „Austrian Film and Seeing/Hearing Voices in Bernhard/Radax Der Italiener,“ Interdisziplinare Konferenz uber Geschichte, Kultur und Gesellschaft Osterreichs im 20. Jahrhundert, Germanistisches Institut, Monash Universitat 16-18 Mai, 1980, in Bodi, Leslie (ed.); Thomson, Philip (ed.). Das Problem Osterreich: Arbeitspapiere. Clayton, Australia : Monash Univ., 1982, p. 105-110.

Lepschy, Christoph, “Bernhard Reads Kleist, II: A Text as Murderer,” in Debatin, Bernhard (ed. and introd.); Jackson, Timothy R. (ed. and introd.); Steuer, Daniel (ed. and introd.). Metaphor and Rational Discourse. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1997, p. 251-57.

--------------, “Bernhard Reads Kleist, I: A Marionette Theatre as a Writing Machine,” in Debatin, Bernhard (ed. and introd.); Jackson, Timothy R. (ed. and introd.); Steuer, Daniel (ed. and introd.). Metaphor and Rational Discourse. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1997, p. 13-24.

Leventhal, RobertS., “The Rhetoric of Anarcho-Nihilistic Murder: Thomas Bernhard's Das Kalkwerk,” Modern Austrian Literature. 1988; 21(3-4): 19-38.

Long, Jonathan, "Thomas Bernhard's Die Macht der Gewohnhei" in Hutchinson, Peter (ed.), Landmarks in German Comedy , 2006 Lang, pp. 211-226

--------------, "Narration and Repetition in the Late Novels of Thomas Bernhard" in Fetz, Gerald (ed.), Thomas Bernhard: Retrospective Essays , 2003, Ariadne Press.

--------------,“Ungleichzeitigkeiten: Class Relationships in Bernhard's Fiction,” in Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 187-208.

--------------, "Resisting Bernhard: Women and Violence in Das Kalkwerk, Ja and Auslöschun." 2001, Seminar 37, pp. 33-52

--------------, “Veracity, Mendacity, Absurdity: Form and Its Function in Thomas Bernhard's Der Stimmenimitator,” Forum for Modern Language Studies. 1996 Oct; 32(4): 343-53.

Lopate, Phillip, “On Not Reading Thomas Bernhard, Pequod: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and Literary Criticism. 1992; 33: 72-83.

Lorenz, Dagmar, “The Established Outsider: Thomas Bernhard,” in Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 29-50.

McLintock, David Robert, “Tense and Narrative Perspective in Two Works of Thomas Bernhard,” Oxford German Studies. 1980; 11: 1-26.

Malkin, Jeanette R.,”Pulling the Pants Off History: Politics and Postmodernism in Thomas Bernhard's Eve of Retirement,” Theatre Journal. 1995 Mar; 47(1): 105-19.

-------------, “Thomas Bernhard, Jews, Heldenplatz,” in Schumacher, Claude (ed. and introd.). Staging the Holocaust: The Shoah in Drama and Performance. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge UP, 1998, p. 281-97.

Martin, Charles W., “The Nihilism of Thomas Bernhard: The Portrayal of Existential and Social Problems in His Prose Works,” Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1995. 277 pp.

Mavrikakis, Catherine, “To End the Glorification of Suffering,” Bucknell Review: A Scholarly Journal of Letters, Arts and Sciences. 1998; 42(2): 124-35.

Mehigan, Tim, „Violent Orders in Robert Musil's 'Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften' and Thomas Bernhard's 'Kalkwerk',“ in Huppauf, Bernd (ed. and introd.). War, Violence, and the Modern Condition. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1997, p. 300-16.

Meyerhofer, Nicholas J., “The Laughing Sisyphus: Reflections on Bernhard as (Self)-Dramatist in Light of His Der Theatermacher,” Modern Austrian Literature. 1988; 21(3-4): 107-115.

Motola, Gabriel, “Thomas Bernhard's Austria,” Pequod: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and Literary Criticism. 1992; 33: 54-62.

Mura, David, “Waiting for the End: Bernhard's Concrete,” Pequod: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and Literary Criticism.1992; 33: 100-12.

Murphy, Bruce, “The Shadow of Life: Negation, Nihilism, and Insanity in Thomas Bernhard's Correction,” in Fischlin, Daniel (ed.). Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality. Dordrecht : Kluwer Acad., 1994, p. 157-71.

Murphy, Bruce, “Madness and the Ideal, Pequod: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and Literary Criticism. 1992; 33: 92-99.

Naqvi, Fatima, " The Man of Taste Reconceived: Mastering Aesthetics in Thomas Bernhard's Alte Meister." Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Lituratur und Kultur, Vol. 96, No. 2, Summer 2004.

O'Neill, Patrick, “Endgame Variations: Narrative and Noise in Thomas Bernhard's Das Kalkwerk,” in Gaede, Friedrich (ed.); O' Neill, Patrick (ed.); Scheck, Ulrich (ed.). Hinter dem schwarzen Vorhang: Die Katastrophe und die epische Tradition. Tübingen: Francke, 1994, p. 231-41.

Olson, Michael, P., “Playing It Safe: Historicizing Thomas Bernhard's Jews,” Modern Austrian Literature. 1994; 27(3-4): 37-49.

-------------, “Misogynist Exposed? The Sister's Role in Thomas Bernhard's Beton and Der Untergeher,” New German Review: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 1987; 3: 30-40.

--------------, “Thomas Bernhard, Glenn Gould, and the Art of Fugue: Contrapuntal Variations in Der Untergeher, Modern Austrian Literature. 1991; 24(3-4): 73-83.

Plow, Geoffrey, “The Affliction of Prose: Thomas Bernhard's Critique of Self-Expression in Korrektur, Ja and Der Stimmenimitator,” German Life and Letters. 1991 Jan; 44(2): 133-42.

Price, David W., "Thoughts of Destruction and Annihilation in Thomas Bernhard." The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 102, No. 2, April 2003.

Reinelt, Janelle, “Performing Justice for the Future of Our Time,” European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History, and Politics. 2001; 17: 37-51.

Reiter, Andrea, “Austrophobia as It Is: Charles Sealsfield, Thomas Bernhard and the Art of Exaggeration,” in Robertson, Ritchie (ed.); Timms, Edward (ed.). Gender and Politics in Austrian Fiction. Edinburgh : Edinburgh UP, 1996, p. 166-77.

--------------, “Thomas Bernhard's 'Musical Prose',” in Williams, Arthur (ed.); Parkes, Stuart (ed.); Smith, Roland (ed.). Literature on the Threshold: The German Novel in the 1980s. New York : Berg, 1990. 358 pp. p. 187-207.

Riemer, Willy, “Thomas Bernhard's Der Untergeher: Newtonian Realities and Deterministic Chaos,” in Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 209-22.

Schmidt-Dengler, Wendelin, “Thomas Bernhard's Poetics of Comedy,” in Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 105-15.

Sharp, Francis Michael, “Thomas Bernhard: Literary Cyrogenics or Art on Ice,” Modern Austrian Literature. 1988; 21(3-4): 201-215.

-------------, “Literature as Self-Reflection: Thomas Bernhard and Peter Handke,” World Literature Today: A Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma. 1981 Autumn; 55(4): 603-607.

Shlaes, Amity, “Thomas Bernhard and the German Literary Scene,” The New Criterion. New York, NY. 1987 Jan.; 5(5): 26-32.

Stephens, Michael, “Homage to Thomas Bernhard,” Pequod: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and Literary Criticism. 1992; 33: 84-91.

Streeruwitz, Marlene; Konzett, Matthias (translator), “My Latest Encounter with Bernhard,” in Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 223-27

Streeruwitz, Marlene; Konzett, Michael (translator), “Perverted Attitudes of Mourning in the Wake of Thomas Bernhard's Death,” in Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 23-27.

Theisen, Bianca, “Comitragedies: Thomas Bernhard's Marionette Theater,” MLN. 1996 Apr; 111(3): 533-59.

Thorpe, Kathleen, “Reading the Photographs in Thoams Bernhard's Novel Ausloschung ,“ Modern Austrian Literature. 1988; 21(3-4): 39-50.

Thorpe, Kathleen, “The Autobiographical Works of Thomas Bernhard,” Acta Germanica: Jahrbuch des Germanistenverbandes im Südlichen Afrika. 1980; 13: 189-200.

Venuti, Lawrence, “Bernhard on Stage: Politics and Performance in Der Prasident, Pequod: A Journal of Contemporary Literature and Literary Criticism. 1992; 33: 124-33.

Webb, Karl E., “First Sentences, Autobiography, and Self-Irony: Thomas Bernhard's Beton,” in Dvorak, Paul F. (ed. and introd.). Modern Austrian Prose: Interpretations and Insights. Riverside: Ariadne, 2001, p. 218-46

Webber, Andrew, “Costume Drama: Performance and Identity in Bernhard's Works,” in Konzett, Matthias (ed. and introd.). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2002, p. 149-65.

Wright, Elizabeth, “Transmission in Psychoanalysis and Literature: Whose Text Is It Anyway?” in Rimmon-Kenan,-Shlomith (ed.). Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature. New York : Methuen, 1988,  p. 89-103.

Wolfschutz, Han, “Thomas Bernhard: The Mask of Death,” in Best, Alan; Wolfschutz, Han. Modern Austrian Writing: Literature and Society after 1945. London; Totowa,: Wolff; Barnes & Noble, p. 214-35.

Wulf, Catharina, “Desire for the Other: Obsession as Failure/Failure as Obsession. Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and Bernhard's Minetti,” Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd' hui: An Annual Bilingual Review/Revue Annuelle Bilingue. 1993; 2: 87-94.
C. Dissertations
  Anastasopoulus, Dimitrios J., Asymptotic Novel: The Language of Fiction and Its Limits, 2001. Freudenburg, Rachel Anne, Fictions of Friendship in Twentieth-Century German Literature: Mann's 'Doktor Faustus,' Grass's 'Katz und Maus,' Bernhard's 'Der Untergeher' and 'Wittgensteins Neffe,' and Wolf's 'Nachdenken uber Christa T. 1996.

Hierl, Ernst Sebastian, The End of the Road: Nihilism, Pleasure in the Text, Postmodernism, and Tradition in Thomas Bernhard and John Barth. 1998.

Moseley, Karen-Appaline, Schizophrenia and Creative Archetypes as Shown in Works by Thomas Bernhard. 1982.

Starkman, Ruth, A Beautiful Theory and Unaesthetic States: Fascism and the Theater of Thomas Bernhard. 1992.

D. Reviews
 

Abish, Walter, “Embraced by Death;” New York Times Book Review 16 February 1986.

Benfey, Christopher, "The Heart in Winter." NY Times, October 22, 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/books/review/Benfey.t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Eder, Richard, "Gathering Evidence: A Memoir," International Herald Tribune 7 March 1986.

Kirkpatrick, Matthew, "Three Novellas by Thomas Bernhard." Bookslut, August 2003.
http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2003_08_000363.php

Klug, Christian, review article Modern Austrian Literature. 1988; 21(3-4): 281-289.

Steiner, George, "Asking for Apocalypse," Times Literary Supplement 29 February 1980.

Temple, Gudrun, "German Fiction: Two Real Voices Among All the Notebooks," Times Literary Supplement 4 February 1971.

Vivis, Anthony, “Laments for Humanity, Times Literary Supplement 11 June 1976 (Ein Fest für Boris, Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige, Die Macht der Gewohnheit, Jagdgesellschaft).

 
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