Narrado por el autor austriaco más importante del siglo XX, este libro habla sobre la vida financiera de un escritor, sus manías, extravagancias, el significado de los premios literarios y su postura literaria ante la vida. Sumando el magnífico prólogo de Andrés Barba, el lector se adentra, con una profundidad inusual, en la vida material del escritor: un camino impredecible entre la fortuna y la precariedad. ¿Cómo imaginamos la vida de un autor famoso? ¿Cómo es en realidad? En el caso de Bernhard, la diferencia es un abismo de ironías, en el límite de lo cómico y lo trágico. Como si de un diario se tratase, Bernhard relata sin inhibiciones episodios absurdos sobre los reconocimientos que le otorgan: lo que siente, lo que detesta y lo que compra compulsivamente con el dinero de cada premio—una propiedad en ruinas y un automóvil de lujo—, revelando así su infame postura ante el prestigio. Traductor: Miguel Sáenz Prólogo: Andrés Barba
Author
Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian writer who ranks among the most distinguished German-speaking writers of the second half of the 20th century. Although internationally he's most acclaimed because of his novels, he was also a prolific playwright. His characters are often at work on a lifetime and never-ending major project while they deal with themes such as suicide, madness and obsession, and, as Bernhard did, a love-hate relationship with Austria. His prose is tumultuous but sober at the same time, philosophic by turns, with a musical cadence and plenty of black humor. He started publishing in the year 1963 with the novel Frost. His last published work, appearing in the year 1986, was Extinction. Some of his best-known works include The Loser (about a student's fictionalized relationship with the pianist Glenn Gould), Wittgenstein's Nephew, and Woodcutters.
