by Ewald Osers (Translator), Thomas Bernhard (Author)
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
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 01 Jan 1992
ISBN 10: 0226043916
ISBN 13: 9780226043913