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Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard was an Australian novelist, playwright, and poet whose best-known works are the novels The Lime Works and Correction and the play Heldenplatz.

Jean-Arthur Rimbaud

Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) wrote this lecture—published in English for the first time here—for Jean-Arthur Rimbaud’s (1854–1891) one-hundredth birthday. Bernhard was twenty-three when he delivered it at the Hotel Pitter in Salzburg before a small audience that called ...