Works:Thomas Bernhard


Works (also see Bibliography)
Novels
	On the Mountain written 1959, published 1989 Published posthumously on Bernhard's instructions, this is chronologically his first, with an afterword by the translator Sophie Wilkins.
	Gargoyles 1967 Translated from the German Verstörung, something like Confusion.
	The Lime Works 1970
	Correction 1975. A long, dense novel, the review of which by George Steiner in the Times Literary Supplement first brought Bernhard's name to prominence in the UK and USA.
	Yes 1978.
	The Cheap-Eaters 1980.
	Gathering Evidence 1981-82. A substantial collection of five small books of memoirs, reissued in March 2003.
	Concrete 1982.
	Wittgenstein's Nephew 1982. This short memoir/novel contains advice for writers who equate prizes with artistic worth: "a prize is invariably only awarded by incompetent people who want to piss on your head and who do copiously piss on your head if you accept their prize."
	The Loser 1983. The first part of Bernhard's trilogy of the arts, about music.
	Cutting Timber: an Irritation 1984. Second part of that arts trilogy,about the theatre; the title has also been rendered as Woodcutters.
	Old Masters: a Comedy 1985. The third part of the arts trilogy, about painting; it includes a famous long attack on Heidegger: "that ridiculous Nazi philistine in plus-fours."
	Extinction 1986.
	The Voice Imitator Very short stories, 104 in as many pages. Excerpts from The Voice Imitator A review of The Voice Imitator in the NY Times and at the Review of Contemporary Fiction
	Three Novellas Amras, Playing Watten and Walking; June 2003, University of Chicago Press. Walking, originally published in 1971, was recently published in translation by Conjunctions magazine, where an excerpt is available.
Plays
	The Force of Habit. Transl. by Neville and Stephen Plaice (London: Heinemann Performed at the National Theatre, London, in 1976. Details of that production. In 2006, an Italian production in Perugia.
	The President. Transl. by Gitta Honegger (New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1982).
	Eve of Retirement. Transl. by Gitta Honegger (New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1982).
	Histrionics 1990 Three of Bernhard's many plays: "A Party for Boris," "Ritter, Dene, Voss," and "Histrionics."
	Heldenplatz His last play, surrounded by controversy when it was condemned by former UN Secretary General, Austrian President, and Waffen SS Officer Kurt Waldheim; also published in Conjunctions, No. 33, Fall 1999, but the text in not on line. http://www.conjunctions.com/conj33.htm .
Poetry
	The Lunatics The Inmates Text at Conjunctions site in English and in German. In Hora Mortis Text at Conjunctions site in English and in German.


Books about Thomas Bernhard
	Thomas Bernhard Werkgeschichte Jens Dittmar, editor 1992 [in German] A comprehensive listing of all of Bernhard's writings in chronological order with an extended bibliography and list of translations of his works, included here because of its usefulness to English readers.
	L'Objecteur d'esprit Bernhard: Une transformation by Pierre Wolfcarius [in French] available from Publibook.com The author describes his book
	Thomas Bernhard: the Making of an Austrian by Gitta Honnegger 2002. Review
	The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: Form and Its Function by J. J. Long 2001. Review by Stephen Mitchelmore of the Long and Honegger titles at Spike Magazine.
	A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard Edited by Matthias Konzett 2000
	Thomas Bernhard Portraits: Bilder & Texte [in German] by Sepp Dreissinger 1991 available at Amazon.de Thomas Bernhard. Portraits. Bilder und Texte, edited by Sepp Dreissinger, with an introduction by Wieland Schmied, designed by Erika Schmied and Richard Pils, published in 1992 in an edition of 3333 copies, should not be left off a list even if it is essentially of English-language works. The publisher Richard Pils is owner of the small publishing house Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz located in Weitra, a town of 3000 in lower Austria, far from large cities. The location, an invitation to reflections about globalization and centralisation, explains the 'Provinz' of the name; Richard Pils chose 'Bibliothek' to emphasize that his publishing house was in fact no more than an expansion of his own library. Before meeting Richard Pils, the photographer, founding member (1981) of the Galerie Fotohof in Salzburg, who also edited the book, Sepp Dreissinger, had approached many publishers in both Austria and Germany in an effort to realize his idea of a true portrait of Thomas Bernhard, but in vain: no one was interested, a shocking fact to Richard Pils. In the end he and Sepp Dreissinger embarked upon the project, and after many difficulties and surprising turns of events both bad and good, created this fine book. [Anja Zeidler] The sensitive and perceptive photos Thomas Bernhard by Sepp Dreissinger enhance the pages of this site, each having a link to the photographer's site. We are grateful to have them even though repeated attempts to request permission have failed. Information about how to contact him will be gratefully received:messages have bounced from all e-mail addresses on his site, about five in total.