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Thomas Bernhard - The Cellar

A Withdrawal

Lehrjahre unter Erniedrigten

One morning, the pupil decides to withdraw from his life. In the cellar, on the fringes of the detested town, in the ghetto of the have-nots and criminals, Thomas Bernhard finds himself an apprenticeship in a grocery store. There he gets to know those who have been cast aside by society, and he gets to understand himself.

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Die sorgfältig gestalteten und ausgestatteten Neuausgaben sind fest gebunden
128 pages
format:125 x 205
ISBN: 9783701715596
Release date: 27.09.2010

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Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard was born on the 9th of February, 1931 in Heerlen, Netherlands, and dies on 12th of February 1989 in Gmunden, Upper Austria.1952-1957 he studied Music and Acting at the Akademie Mozarteum Salzburg, since 1957 he lived as a freelance author. He has received some of the most prestigious literature prizes and awards, among them the Österreichischer Staatspreis 1967 and the Georg-Büchner-Preis 1970, and is considered as one of the most important german language authors of his century.

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„Bernhard bezeichnet die Lehrjahre im Keller als die wichtigste Zeit seines Lebens. In ihr wurden die Fundamente gelegt für ein literarisches Werk, das in seiner Radikalität als einziges deutschsprachiges neben dem Samuel Becketts zu bestehen vermag.“ Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt

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