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Collected Poems
Thomas Bernhard
Filled with an undulant self-pity, counterpointed by a defamatory, bardic voice, Bernhard’s verse emerged since the beginning of his career in the early 1950s as a magisterial work of anti-poetry. It represents his harrowing experience, with the leitmotif of success and failure, which makes his fiction a distinct pleasure.
Bernhard’s “Collected Poems” proves to be a key to understanding the irascible black comedy found in virtually all of this writer’s work – even down to his last will and testament.