by Thomas Bernhard · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070709076
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«Perturbation» is a novel by Thomas Bernhard published by Gallimard in paperback (224 pages, in French).
The narrator, a teenager, accompanies his father, a rural doctor in the Austrian Alps, on his visits to patients. He soon discovers that, beyond physical diagnoses, the sick carry loneliness, unease and an inner torment that medicine cannot reach. The journey becomes an inquiry into psychological suffering and the human condition.
French edition translated from German (original title: «Verstörung», 1967) by Bernard Kreiss; part of the L'Imaginaire collection, no. 207.
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive prose style often featuring multiple perspectives on characters and events, idiosyncratic vocabulary and punctuation, and long monologues by protagonists on the verge of insanity.
