There are fewer books about Bernhard than I had imagined, the reader thought after thirty minutes of googling.
Books
- Calandra, Denis (1983). New German Dramatists: A Study of Peter Handke, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Heiner Müller, Thomas Brasch, Thomas Bernhard and Botho Strauss, Palgrave.
- Dowden, Stephen D. (1991). Understanding Thomas Bernhard, University of South Carolina Press.
- Weiss, Gernot (1993). Auslöschung der Philosophie: Philosophiekritik bei Thomas Bernhard, Königshausen u. Neumann.
- Martin, Charles W. (1995). The Nihilism Of Thomas Bernhard: The portrayal of existential and social problems in his prose works, Brill Rodopi.
- Wulf, Catharina (1996). The Imperative of Narration: Beckett, Bernard, Schopenhauer, Lacan, Sussex Academic Press.
- Niccolini, Elisabetta (2000). Der Spaziergang des Schriftstellers: Lenz von Georg Büchner, Der Spaziergang von Robert Walser Gehen von Thomas Bernhard, J. B. Metzler.
- Konzett, Matthias (2000). The Rhetoric of National Dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek, Camden House.
- Honegger, Gitta (2001). Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian, Yale University Press.
- Long, J. J. (2001). The novels of Thomas Bernhard: form and its function, Camden House.
- Konzett, Matthias (ed.) (2002). A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard, Boydell & Brewer.
- Frederick, Samuel (2012). Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter, Northwestern University Press.
- Reinert, Bastian & Götze, Clemens (2019). Elfriede Jelinek und Thomas Bernhard: Intertextualität – Korrelationen – Korrespondenzen, De Gruyter.
- Berwald, Olaf (ed.), Dowden Stephen D. (ed.) & Thuswaldner, Gregor (ed.) (2020). Thomas Bernhard’s Afterlives, Bloomsbury.
- Fabjan, Peter (2021). Ein Leben an der Seite von Thomas Bernhard: Ein Rapport, Suhrkamp.
Misc
- Bibliography on thomasbernhard.org
- Ben Lerner’s essay “A moment of freedom” (behind a paywall)
- Tim Parks’ essay “The Genius of Bad News” (behind a paywall)
On ‘Walking’ (Gehen), 1971
- Tony’s Reading List, review of Gehen (Walking)
- David Auerbach, Walking”, Thomas Bernhard
- Anja Ketterl, So-Called Speechlessness: Voiceless Speech in Thomas Bernhard’s Walking
- Jan Lechner, Über die Zeit und ihre Strukturen in “Gehen” von Thomas Bernhard
- Jürgen Doll, “Die Grenzüberschreitung nach Steinhof” Zu Thomas Bernhards Erzählung Gehen
- Anke Gleber, “Auslöschung, Gehen” Thomas Bernhards Poetik der Destruktion und Reiteration
- Walking, on second.wiki