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Old Masters: A Comedy

English · Paperback / Softback

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Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's White-Bearded Man, on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as two typically Viennese pedants (serving as alter egos for Bernhard himself) irreverently, even contemptuously take down high culture, society, state-supported artists, Heidegger, and much more.

It's a book built on thought and conversation rather than action or visuals. Yet somehow celebrated Austrian cartoonist Nicholas Mahler has brought it to life in graphic form--and it's brilliant. This volume presents Mahler's typically minimalist cartoons alongside new translations of selected passages from the novel. The result is a version of Old Masters that is strikingly new, yet still true to Bernhard's bleak vision, and to the novel's outrageous proposition that the perfect work of art is truly unbearable to even think about--let alone behold.

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Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) was a playwright, poet, and novelist. He won many of the most prestigious literary prizes of Europe, including the Austrian State Prize, the Bremen and Brüchner prizes, and Le Prix Séguier. Nicolas Mahler is a prolific writer and cartoonist. He has also reimagined Thomas Bernhard's controversial play The World Betterer (Der Weltverbesserer) as a graphic novel, which will be published in an English translation by Seagull Books in 2018. James Reidel is a poet, biographer and translator.


Product details

Authors Thomas Bernhard
Assisted by Nicholas Mahler (Illustration), Nicolas Mahler (Illustration), James Reidel (Translation)
Publisher Sea Boating
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.10.2018
 
EAN 9780857424709
ISBN 978-0-85742-470-9
No. of pages 160
Dimensions 177 mm x 244 mm x 20 mm
Weight 442 g
Series German List
The German List
The German List - (Seagull Titles CHUP)
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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