Three Novellas

Now in paperback, Three Novellas is a passport to the absurd, dark, and uncommonly comic world of Thomas Bernhard.

Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (New York Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and Robert Musil, Thomas Bernhard remains less well known in America.

Uninitiated readers should consider Thr...