> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Bernhard-Un-enfant/17527

> Un livre accessible. qui donne l'occasion de toucher un peu du doigt, et sans complaisances, la réalité de l'atmosphère en Autriche et dans le sud de l'Allemagne à l'orée de la seconde guerre mondiale. le personne central a neuf ans au début de la guerre.
—Danieljean (Babelio)

> Nuit blanche, No. 17 (févr.–mars 1985), p. 30. … ; (en ligne),
URL : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/20259ac

> Lecture / Ecriture : http://www.lecture-ecriture.com/5624-Un-enfant-Thomas-Bernhard ( )

con este relato termina TB sus recuerdos de juventud. es a una vez el último y el primer volumen, y abarca los años que van desde su nacimiento en los Países bajos hasta su entrada a los trece años en el Johanneum de Salzburgo. ( )

The first part of Bernhard's memoirs (autobiographical novels, really) in chronological order and the last to be published. This book describes his early childhood up to the age of thirteen (1931-44). At the heart of the story is his difficult relationship with his mother. Thomas's father had abandoned her as soon as she became pregnant, and at moments of stress she can't help blaming the child for ruining her life ("Du hast mir noch gefehlt! Du bist mein ganzes Unglück..."). In contrast is his idyllic friendship with his grandfather, a novelist of anarchist leanings who warns him against the evils of bourgeois institutions like primary schools, with regrettable results...

From the context, and from everything I've heard about Bernhard, this account of an unhappy, deprived childhood in wartime Austria and Bavaria should be thoroughly depressing, but the quality of the writing and the sheer originality of Bernhard's technique don't leave you with any time to feel sorry for him, or to whinge about trivialities like the absence of paragraph and chapter-breaks. ( )