Frost (novel)

Frost is the first novel by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. The novel was published in 1963 and translated into English by Michael Hofmann 2006. 2013 gave Raimund Fellinger and Martin Huber under the title of arguments of a winter stroller two preparatory work to freeze out.

Content

The nameless narrator of the novel leaves Vienna and travels in order to Weng, an Austrian mountain village to observe the strange artist shrub that lives there in a tavern. The records of these observations and some final letters form the content of the book.

Awards

For the work of Bernhard in 1965 awarded the Bremen Literature Prize, 1968, he received the Austrian Promotion Award for Literature.

Expenditure

• Frost. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt q.s. 1963 [ first edition ].
• Frost ( = Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 47). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt aM 1972. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 47, ISBN 3-518-36547-9.
• Frost. Works, Volume 1 Edited by Martin Huber and Wendelin Schmidt- Dengler. Frankfurt q.s. 2003, ISBN 978-3-518-41501-6.