Relatos autobiográficos

The description of a life as the invention of a life: these pages hide the key to understanding how Bernhard became the writer he was. Here are the five volumes of his autobiographical writings, whose publication began with The Origin (1983), followed by The Basement, The Breath, The Cold and A Child. As Miguel Sáenz, the great Spanish translator of Bernhard's work, affirms in the prologue written for this edition, with the appearance of El origen "the incorporation of Bernhard into Spanish literature really began, a literature that would never again be the same". The reader of these autobiographical Stories will discover -in addition to a style that is difficult to imitate in which the repetition of words and entire groups of articulated words, in the manner of a musical theme, an obsessive and obsessive thought- how, against the current and sometimes bordering on the last frontiers of life, Bernhard managed to conceive and build a work that is an "exaltation of survival".