Old Masters: a Comedy

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet 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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Bernhard, Ewald Osers
• Assisted by: Ewald Osers (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.1985
• EAN: 9780226043913
• ISBN: 978-0-226-04391-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 205 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Phoenix Fiction; Phoenix Fiction
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature