| Old Masters: A Comedy Contributor(s): Bernhard, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226043916 ISBN-13: 9780226043913 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $19.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92018986 |
| Series: Phoenix Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.34" W x 8.06" (0.46 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Bernhard, Thomas: - 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), became one of the most widely admired writers of his generation, and insisted at his death that none of his works be published in Austria for seventy years, a provision later repealed by his half-brother. |