Amras

About This Novel

Thomas Bernhard repeatedly called Amras his favorite work. His parents committed suicide and two brothers attempted suicide. They were placed by their uncle in a tower in Amras, far away from the crowd and away from the asylum. This is both a prison and an asylum. A frail body and a rapidly collapsing mind resonate in this tower. The emotions between the brothers are complicated and tense, with attachment and rejection; the disease makes all these more irreconcilable. This book combines monologues, letters, diaries, aphorisms and other fragmentary narrative structures, unfolds contemplation in fragmentation, and presents the author's profound exploration of death, isolation, self and spiritual limits. Bernhard uses his always cold and precise language to describe the entire process of life's disintegration, while exploring how people struggle to survive in extreme loneliness.

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