Save Yourself If You Can – Six Plays

A collection of six Bernhard plays, all in English for the first time. Save Yourself if You Can is a collection of six plays that span the entirety of Thomas Bernhard's career as a dramatist. The plays collected in this long-awaited addition to Bernhard's oeuvre in English-The Ignoramus and the Madman, The Celebrities, Immanuel Kant, The Goal Attained, Simply Complicated, and Elizabeth II-traverse somber lyricism and misanthropy to biting satire and glorious slapstick. They explore themes that will be familiar to longtime readers of Bernhardt, but here they are presented in a subtly different register, attuned to the needs of the stage.  

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Bernhard, Douglas Robertson
• Assisted by: Douglas Robertson (Translation)
• Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2023
• EAN: 9781803092584
• ISBN: 978-1-80309-258-4
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 238 mm x 46 mm
• Weight: 896 g
• Series: The German List
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies