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Old Masters: A Comedy
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Old Masters: A Comedy Paperback - 1992

by Thomas Bernhard; Ewald Osers (Translator)


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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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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.

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  • Title Old Masters: A Comedy
  • Author Thomas Bernhard; Ewald Osers (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-11-15
  • ISBN 9780226043913 / 0226043916
  • Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.34 x 0.5 in (20.47 x 13.56 x 1.27 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Satire, Vienna (Austria) - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92018986
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

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 Brchner prizes, and Le Prix Sguier.
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