LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH
ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
'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
Mid-century Austria. Three aspiring concert pianists - Wertheimer,
Glenn Gould, and the narrator - have dedicated their lives to
achieving the status of a virtuoso. But one day, two of them overhear
Gould playing Bach's _Goldberg Variations,_ and his incomparable
genius instantly destroys them both.
They are forced to abandon their musical ambitions: Wertheimer, over a
tortured process of disintegration that sees him becoming obsessed
with both writing and his own sister, with whom he has a
quasi-incestuous relationship culminating in death; and the narrator,
instantly, retreating into obscurity to write a book that he
periodically destroys and restarts.
Written as a monologue in one remarkable unbroken paragraph, THOMAS
BERNHARD's dazzling meditation on failure, genius, and fame is a
radical new reading experience: musical, paralysing, raging, and
inimitable.
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ISBN
9780571355792
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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