LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH
ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL HOFMANN
'IF YOU HAVEN'T READ BERNHARD, YOU WILL NOT KNOW OF THE MOST RADICAL
ADVANCE IN FICTION SINCE JOYCE ... MY ADVICE: DIVE IN.' LUCY ELLMANN
'I absolutely love Bernhard: he is one of the darkest and funniest
writers ... A must read for everybody.' Karl Ove Knausgaard
Instead of the book he is meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese
musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of
small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to
the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph's sister, whose help he
invites then reviles; his 'really marvellous' house which he hates;
the suspicious illness he carefully nurses; his ten-year-long attempt
to write the perfect opening sentence; and his escape to the island of
Majorca, which turns out to be the site of someone else's very real
horror story, and ultimately brings him no release from himself.
_Concrete _is Thomas Bernhard at his very finest: a bleakly hilarious
insight into procrastination and failure that scratches the murky
depths of our souls.
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ISBN
9780571355778
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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