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*The Loser* is a 1983 novel by Austrian author Thomas Bernhard that explores the destructive nature of artistic genius through a fictionalized account of the pianist Glenn Gould. The unnamed narrator and his friend Wertheimer studied piano alongside Gould, an experience that highlighted their own in...
Thomas Bernhard's 1975 Austrian novel presenting an obsessive monologue about a man who built a geometrically perfect cone house for his sister, who then died in it, exploring perfectionism, guilt, and self-destruction.
*Correction* is a 1975 novel by Austrian author Thomas Bernhard that deals with themes of artistic perfectionism and self-destruction. The narrator spends time in the isolated rural estate of his recently deceased friend, Roithamer, sorting through the man's writings. Through these notes, he reconst...
*Woodcutters* is a 1984 novel by Austrian author Thomas Bernhard that delivers a sustained critique of Vienna's cultural elite. The plot consists almost entirely of the internal monologue of an unnamed writer as he sits in a wingback chair at an artistic dinner party, bitterly judging the guests whi...
1992 American psychological thriller starring Annabella Sciorra as a Manhattan psychiatrist whose patient's erotic confessions connect her to an ongoing murder case.
