The Loser

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<p><b>LRB BOOKSHOP''S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH </b><br><b>ONE OF THE GUARDIAN''S BEST BOOKS OF 2019</b><br><br><b>''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</b><br><br><b>''I absolutely love Bernhard: he is one of the darkest and funniest writers ... A must read for everybody.'' Karl Ove Knausgaard</b><br><br>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 <i>Goldberg Variations,</i> and his incomparable genius instantly destroys them both. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780571349975

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

196 x 131 x 15 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Verlag / Hersteller

Faber & Faber