The loser
Bernhard, Thomas2019
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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, Bernhard's dazzling meditation on failure, genius, and fame is a radical new reading experience: musical, paralysing, raging, and inimitable.
Main title:
The loser / Thomas Bernhard ; translated from the German by Jack Dawson ; with a new afterword by Leanne Shapton.
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Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2019.©1991
Collation:
189 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780571349975 (paperback)
Dewey class:
833.914
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
368190
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | BERN | Available |