ProseHis manner of speaking, like that of all the subordinated, excluded, was awkward, like a body full of wounds, into which at any time anyone can strew salt, yet so insistent, that it is painful to listen to him, from The Carpenter. The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (193189) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our time. The seven stories in this collection capture Bernhards distinct darkly comic voice and visionoften