This book is a collection of about 40 people who knew Thomas Bernhard or were directly concerned by him. Family, friends, neighbors, tailor, garage owner, actors, stage directors, writers and the real characters of his books. They all had to answer to the question: "why do you love (or hate) Thomas Bernhard" and they all did truly, sometimes rudely. The characters in his books who take part are especially interesting because they have here the opportunity to answer to T.B.'s radical critics and attacks. Amazingly, most of them prove right but some of them not. There is also the testimony of T.B.'s half-sister about his father, which T.B. never met but so often evoked. The whole story of the father could be reconstructed through photos, letters. This book is full of humor too.