The Rest Is Slander - Five Stories by Thomas Bernhard Diamela Eltit and Francis and Val Gray

and Francis and Val Gray Ward

a selection of lesser known prose poems and later tales helps to present a fuller picture of the development of Machen's weird vision

"- Guillaume Apollinaire

Displaying a sharp wit and a Gogolian sense of the absurd

The Rest Is Slander - Five Stories by Thomas Bernhard Diamela Eltit and Francis and Val GrayThe Rest Is Slander Five Stories Translated by Douglas Robertson ISBN 9781803090672 212 page hardback from Seagull Books *** A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. The cold increases with the clarity, said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a major literary prize in 1965. That clarity was the postwar realization that the Wests last remaining cultural reference points were