Introduction: The Master of Understatement, or Remembering Schermaier -- Stephen Dowden (Brandeis University, USA) -- 1. The Afterlife of Thomas Bernhard in Contemporary Austrian Literature Katya Krylova (University of Aberdeen, UK) -- 2. How Not to Begin: Wrestling with Thomas Bernhard Kata Gellen (Duke University, USA) -- 3. Bernhard, Sebald, and Photography in Holocaust Memory Agnes Mueller (University of South Carolina, USA) -- 4. Radical Style: Bernhard, Sontag, Kertész Stephen Dowden (Brandeis University, USA) -- 5. The Stains of Cultural Inheritance: Thomas Bernhard and Philip Roth Byron Spring (Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK) -- 6. Gaddis before Bernhard before Gaddis Martin Klebes (University of Oregon, USA) -- 7. Thomas Bernhard, a Writer for Spain Heike Scharm (University of South Florida, USA) -- 8. Immersions into Bernhard's Works in Recent Francophone Literature Olaf Berwald (Kennesaw State University, USA) -- 9. Thomas Bernhard's Influence on Gabriel Josipovici's Monologue Novels Gregor Thuswaldner (North Park University, USA) -- 10. Thomas Bernhard, Italo Calvino, Elena Ferrante, and Claudio Magris: From Postmodernism to Anti-Semitism Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski (Duke University, USA) -- 11. Thomas Bernhard's Extinction : Variations/Variazioni/Variaciones Juliane Werner (University of Vienna, Austria) Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index