“For long periods I live in isolation, isolated both in mind and in body. I am able to cope with myself by subjecting myself completely and unswervingly to my needs… I am able to exist only by dint of standing up to myself –in fact, of consistently opposing myself.”
— Thomas Bernhard, Gathering Evidence: A Memoir (1985)
Photo: Thomas Bernhard at home, Obernathal, 1981. By Barbara Klemm

















