Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction)

Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction)

by Ewald Osers (Translator), Thomas Bernhard (Author)

Synopsis

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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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 01 Jan 1992

ISBN 10: 0226043916
ISBN 13: 9780226043913

Media Reviews
Thomas Bernhard might be the perfect novelist for our moment . . . . Old Masters is Bernhard at his most tender, and at his most incisive. --Ed Winstead BOMB Magazine
Author Bio
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 Br chner prizes, and Le Prix S guier.