The Loser

Name: The Loser
Author: Thomas Bernhard

by Thomas Bernhard

Three friends' lives intersect through piano competition and artistic compromise

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Thomas Bernhard

Austrian playwright and novelist whose work attacked his country's Nazi past and cultural complacency with hysterical, repetitive, claustrophobic prose. Heldenplatz caused a national scandal in Austria. His will famously forbade any performance of his work in Austria after his death—a prohibition that was eventually lifted.

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