Thomas Bernhard is one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the German language. His last novel, takes the form of the autobiographical testimony of franz-josef murau. The intellectual black sheep of a powerful a...Thomas Bernhard is one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the German language. His last novel, takes the form of the autobiographical testimony of franz-josef murau. The intellectual black sheep of a powerful austrian land-owning family, murau lives in self-exile in Rome.