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by Thomas Bernhard
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Availability:In StockContributor:Thomas BernhardSeries:Phoenix FictionPublish date:1992-11-15Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226043913ISBN-10:226043916UPC:9780226043913Book Category:FictionSize:8.06 x 5.34 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SC61N02V8E
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
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226043913ISBN-10:226043916UPC:9780226043913Book Category:FictionSize:8.06 x 5.34 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SC61N02V8E
Widely acclaimed as a novelist, playwright, and poet, Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) won many of the most prestigious literary prizes of Europe, including the Austrian State Prize, the Bremen and Brüchner prizes, and Le Prix Séguier.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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