Monday, December 09, 2013

A Translation of "Schriftstellerberuf heute" (A letter about Elias Canetti by Thomas Bernhard)

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The Literary Vocation Today The Comedy of Vanity [1] The new honorary doctor Canetti, our age’s greatest huckster of aphorisms—hence ...
Sunday, December 08, 2013

A Translation of "Thomas Bernhard spricht" (Thomas Bernhard anonymously interviewed in November 1975)

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Thomas Bernhard Speaks [1] QUESTION: Mr. Bernhard, you write that you are not interested in the public.  That it has nothing capable of...
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Monday, December 02, 2013

A Translation of a Letter about Bernhard Minetti by Thomas Bernhard

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Bernhard Minetti [1], [2] My dear Henning Rischbieter, it would be an act of madness and hence a blow to my own head, to send you a pi...
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Sunday, December 01, 2013

A Translation of "Aus Schlagobers entsteht nichts" (Thomas Bernhard interviewed by Rudolf Bayr on September 12, 1975)

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“Nothing’s Ever Born from Whipped Cream” [1] RUDOLF BAYR: Mr. Bernhard, let’s begin at the actual beginning: The title of the book...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

A Translation of "Ich brauche die Festspiele nicht" by Thomas Bernhard

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Thomas Bernhard: “I Don’t Need the Festival” His Rejection Letter to the President of the Salzburg Festival Ohlsdorf, 20 August 19...

A Translation of a Telegram from Thomas Bernhard to Josef Kaut, President of the Salzburg Festival

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Bernhard Sends Kaut a Telegram [1] President Kaut, the Salzburg Festival With a cool head I must describe today’s Festival adminis...

A Translation of a Letter about Ludwig Wittgenstein by Thomas Bernhard

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Grand Hotel Imperial Dubrovnik [1]                                                                                                   ...
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Sunday, November 03, 2013

A Translation of "In Österreich hat sich nichts geändert" by Thomas Bernhard

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In Austria Nothing Has Changed [1] Twenty years ago, when I was a mere eighteen years old, [2] a lawsuit was filed against me in the S...