Thomas Bernhard, a nihilist ? This constitutes a polemical pretext in order to deny – to no-one’s surprise – Thomas Bernhard’s radical rigour. This is order to refuse to consider in a positive light the systematicity with which he links the problem of writing to that of its origins. To write is to start writing again, to organise writing’s continuity despite the fact – a fact of its nature – that writing betrays everything it lays claim to : thought, truth, reality. How can the aporetic nature of this fact be transcended ?