Summary
Thomas Bernhard: The Cause
He had to pay a high price, if not the highest price, for the period of his studies, which was undoubtedly the most terrible period in his life, and about that period of his studies and everything he felt during those studies, throughout his life. That city did not deserve the affection and love that its ancestors left it as a predilection and preloved, rejecting it to this day, hitting it on the unprotected head. If I hadn't been able to turn my back on that city, where the creators have always been the object of insults and incitement and in the end always experienced their own destruction, and which through my parents is both my father's and mother's city, I, like so many other creators in it and so many with whom I felt a connection and closeness, would have decided on the only significant test for that city and ended my life suddenly, as so many in it suddenly ended their lives, or I would have slowly and miserably ended up surrounded by its walls and its inhuman, suffocating air....
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