In any contest to pick the most vitriolic novelist of the 20th Century, Thomas Bernhard makes the short list of leading candidates. His pugnacious and acerbic manner is now known worldwide, but the closer one gets to Vienna and Salzburg, where he lived for so many years, the greater the antipathy—indeed, no award-winning author of …
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