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Old Masters: A Comedy
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Series: Phoenix Fiction
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ISBN10: 0226043916
ISBN13: 9780226043913
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Nov 15 1992
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.34 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780226043913
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Nov 15 1992
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.34 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
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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