Description
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
Author: Thomas Bernhard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 11/15/1992
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.34w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780226043913
ISBN10: 0226043916
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | General
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
Author: Thomas Bernhard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 11/15/1992
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.34w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780226043913
ISBN10: 0226043916
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | General
About the Author
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.