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Extinction, Thomas Bernhard's last work of fiction, takes the form of the autobiographical testimony of Franz-Josef Murau, the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family.
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Prestige, contemplative, grave and bleak.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Thomas Bernhard
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 381
- Publisher
- Suhrkamp, Quartet Qrime, University of Chicago Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9783518025970
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About Thomas Bernhard · 1931–1989
Austrian playwright and novelist
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