A clinical internship is not just about watching complicated intestinal surgeries, cutting open the peritoneum, stapling lung lobes, and amputating feet; it truly is not just about closing the eyes of the dead and bringing children into the world. This sentence marks the beginning of Thomas Bernhard's first novel. "Frost" was published in 1963 and serves as the starting point of this author's literary world. Until the release of "Frost," Thomas Bernhard was primarily known to a smaller circle as a poet. However, his debut novel did not come as unexpectedly as it seemed at the time. The author's estate at the Thomas Bernhard Archive in Gmunden shows that several significant prose attempts preceded the novel that would establish Thomas Bernhard's international fame. The writing of "Frost" itself began in early 1962 and was completed in September of the same year.