Gathering Evidence

Thomas Bernhard

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Vintage
15 March 2003

Autobiography: general; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Written with a dark pain and drama that recalls the novels of Dickens, Gathering Evidence is a powerful and compelling memoir of youth by one of the twentieth century's most gifted writers.

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.

From the age of 21, 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.

By: Thomas Bernhard
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780099442530
ISBN 10: 0099442531
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 15 March 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 but grew up in Austria. His interest in music and theatre led him to study at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg. He wrote a quantity of poetry, several novels, short stories and plays and three volumes of autobiography. He died in 1989.

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Breathless, relentlessly compulsive... A remarkable literary contribution * New York Times Book Review * A writer of great originality and fascination * New York Review of Books *

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