Old Masters : A Comedy Paperback / softback
by Thomas Bernhard
Illustrated by Nicolas Mahler
Part of the The German List series
Paperback / softback
Description
Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books.
It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's White-Bearded Man, on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as two typically Viennese pedants (serving as alter egos for Bernhard himself) irreverently, even contemptuously take down high culture, society, state-supported artists, Heidegger, and much more.
It's a book built on thought and conversation rather than action or visuals.
Yet somehow celebrated Austrian cartoonist Nicholas Mahler has brought it to life in graphic form and it's brilliant.
This volume presents Mahler's typically minimalist cartoons alongside new translations of selected passages from the novel.
The result is a version of Old Masters that is strikingly new, yet still true to Bernhard's bleak vision, and to the novel's outrageous proposition that the perfect work of art is truly unbearable to even think about let alone behold.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication Date:12/10/2018
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- ISBN:9780857424709
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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 / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication Date:12/10/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780857424709
