Extinction
  • Published: 8 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781400077618
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $34.00

Extinction

A Novel

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The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Extinction is widely considered Thomas Bernhard’s magnum opus.
 
Franz-Josef Murau—the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family—lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On returning from his sister’s wedding on the family estate of Wolfsegg, having resolved never to go home again, Murau receives a telegram informing him of the death of his parents and brother in a car crash. Not only must he now go back, he must do so as the master of Wolfsegg. And he must decide its fate. Written in the seamless, mesmerizing style for which Bernhard was
famous, Extinction is the ultimate proof of his extraordinary literary genius.
  • Published: 8 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781400077618
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $34.00
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About the author

Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 but grew up in Austria. His interest in music and theatre led him to study at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has written a quantity of poetry, several novels, short stories and plays and three volumes of autobiography. He died in 1989.

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Praise for Extinction

"A writer of great originality and fascination." --The New York Review of Books

"[Bernhard's] world is so powerfully imagined that it can seem to surround you like little else in literature." --The New Yorker

"Austria's greatest postwar writer, a consummate stylist, with a mordant, sometimes Edward Goreyish humor." --The Washington Post