Old Masters: A Comedy
Author(s): Thomas Bernhard
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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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 Bruchner prizes, and Le Prix Seguier.
General Fields
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- : University of Chicago Press
- : University of Chicago Press
- : 0.174
- : 30 November 1985
- : 203mm X 133mm X 13mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Thomas Bernhard
- : Paperback
- : Reprinted edition
- : English
- : 833.914
- : 160