Extinction

<p><b>LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH</b><br> <b>ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019</b><br> <b>WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY GEOFF DYER<br> <br></b><b>'If you haven't read Bernhard, you will not know of the most radical advance in fiction since Joyce ... My advice: dive in.' Lucy Ellmann</b><br> <b><br> 'I absolutely love Bernhard: he is one of the darkest and funniest writers ... A must read for everybody.' Karl Ove Knausgaard</b><br> <br> Franz-Josef Murau is the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family. He now lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On returning from his sister's wedding on the family estate of Wolfsegg, having resolved never to go home again, Murau receives a telegram informing him of the death of his parents and brother in a car crash. Not only must he now go back, he must do so as the master of Wolfsegg: and he must decide its fate.<br> <br> The summit of Thomas Bernhard's artistic genius - mesmerising, addictive, explosively tragicomic - <i>Extinction</i> is a landmark of post-war literature, newly illuminated by <b>Geoff Dyer's afterword.</b></p>