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Article: Bleak Haus.(Book Review)
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- September 29, 2003
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Three Novellas. By Thomas Bernhard. Translated by Peter Jansen and Kenneth J. Northcott, with a foreword by Brian Evenson. Chicago. 174 pp. $25.
Though still relatively unknown in the English-speaking world, the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard, who died in 1989 at the age of 57, is widely recognized as one of the foremost figures in contemporary European literature. Celebrated in Europe since the early 1980s, his unmistakable prose style has marked a number of talented younger Austrian and German writers such as Lilian Faschinger (Magdalena the Sinner), Elfriede Jelinek (The Piano Teacher), Hans-Ulrich Treichel (Lost) and, perhaps most obviously, ...