Old Masters : A Comedy Paperback
by Thomas Bernhard
Paperback
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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, and his love-hate relationship with art.
With characteristically acerbic wit, Bernhard exposes the pretensions and aspirations of humanity in a novel at once pessimistic and strangely exhilarating. "Bernhard's . . . most enjoyable novel."--Robert Craft, "New York Review of Books." "Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction." --George Steiner
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:31/12/1985
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- ISBN:9780226043913
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Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:31/12/1985
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226043913