Old Masters: a Comedy

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) grew up in Salzburg and Vienna, where he studied music. In 1957 he began a second career as a playwright, poet, and novelist. He went on to win 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 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 > "Bernhard's . . . most enjoyable novel."-Robert Craft, New York Review of Books . "Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction."-George Steiner

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thomas Bernhard, Ewald Osers
• Con la collaborazione di: Ewald Osers (Traduzione)
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.1985
• EAN: 9780226043913
• ISBN: 978-0-226-04391-3
• Pagine: 160
• Dimensioni: 133 mm x 205 mm x 8 mm
• Serie: Phoenix Fiction; Phoenix Fiction
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary