The Greatest Writer Most People Have Never Heard Of

Thomas Bernhard might be the greatest writer you've never read.

The Austrian novelist spent most of his adult life seriously ill, and his work shows it. Existential, pessimistic, darkly funny, and built almost entirely on relentless internal monologue, Bernhard sits in a tradition running from Dostoevsky and Knut Hamsun through to Beckett and Kafka.

This is an introduction to his life, his key books, and why The Loser—his fictional account of Glenn Gould's genius destroying everyone around him—might be one of the finest novels of the twentieth century.

Watch my video on this grossly underrated writer below.