Autobiography Series by Thomas Bernhard

Eines Morgens beschließt der sechzehnjährige Gymnasiast auf dem Schulweg spontan, sich seinem bisherigen, verhaßten Leben zu entziehen und sich im Keller, einem Kolonialwarenladen, eine Lehrstelle zu verschaffen... moreEines Morgens beschließt der sechzehnjährige Gymnasiast auf dem Schulweg spontan, sich seinem bisherigen, verhaßten Leben zu entziehen und sich im Keller, einem Kolonialwarenladen, eine Lehrstelle zu verschaffen. Im Keller, am Rande der Salzburger Scherzhauserfeldsiedlung, dem heruntergekommenen, tristen Wohngetto der Besitzlosen, der Asozialen und Kriminellen, lernt Bernhard all die von der Gesellschaft Ausgestoßenen kennen, verstehen und ergreift Partei für diese verlorenen, verstörten Existenzen. less

Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in a right-wing, catholic Austria, Bernhard ran away from home aged fifteen. At eighteen he contracted pneumonia. Placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, he observed with unflinching acuity protracted suffering and death... moreBorn in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in a right-wing, catholic Austria, Bernhard ran away from home aged fifteen. At eighteen he contracted pneumonia. Placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, he observed with unflinching acuity protracted suffering and death. From the age of twenty-one, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament - his witness, the quintessence of his life and knowledge - and where this account of his life ends, his art begins. less