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Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, "Extinction "is widely considered Thomas Bernhard's magnum opus. Franz-Josef Murau--the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family--lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artisti ...Show more
Goethe Dies by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Classics | Series: SB-The German List
This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called one of the masters of European fiction is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the "Tractatus Logico- ...Show more
Goethe Dies by Thomas Bernhard; James Reidel (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: The\German List Ser.
This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called "one of the masters of European fiction" is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the Tractatus Logico ...Show more
Old Masters by BERNHARD THOMAS
Category: Fiction
"Old Masters (1985)" is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, art ...Show more
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Classics | Series: Phoenix Fiction Ser.
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher--who fears Reger's plans to kill himself--gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, ...Show more
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Classics
'When indefatigable obsession looms large as it does in Thomas Bernhard (and his revered precursor Kafka) the result for the reader is a strange exhilaration and the thrall at being admitted into the mind of a maddened, magical genius.' - Edna O'Brien Mid-century Austria. Three aspiring concert pianist ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship by Professor Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction
It is 1967, in a Viennese hospital. In separate wards, two men lie bedridden: the narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of the celebrated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his periodic bouts of madness. Beginning with his memory ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Nephew - A Friendship by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Classics
'Furious, obsessive, scathing, absolutely hilarious and oddly beautiful.' - Claire Messud It is 1967. Two men lie bedridden in separate wings of a Viennese hospital. The narrator, Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of ...Show more
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Classics
'Penetrating and satirical ... Superbly distinctive and provocative.' - New York Times An unnamed writer arrives at an 'artistic dinner' hosted by a composer and his society wife: a couple he once admired, but has now come to detest. They have been brought together by their friend Joana's suicide, but ...Show more
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Classics
Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author s homeland. A searing portrayal of Vienna s bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an artistic di ...Show more
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