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Old Masters
A Comedy
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1992
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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
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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Widely acclaimed as a novelist, playwright, and poet, Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) won many of the most prestigious literary prizes of Europe, including the Austrian State Prize, the Bremen and Brüchner prizes, and Le Prix Séguier.
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“Thomas Bernhard might be the perfect novelist for our moment . . . . Old Masters is Bernhard at his most tender, and at his most incisive.”
— Ed Winstead, BOMB MagazineTopics
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Keywords for this book
satire; literary fiction; contemporary literature; satirical novel; viennese museum; tintoretto portrait; kill himself; suicide; musicologist; love-hate relationship; acerbic wit; pretensions; aspirations of humanity; pessimistic; strangely exhilarating; crabby narrators; funny; western art and music; fine arts; mahler; beethoven; bach; mozart; tongue-lashings; grumpy old men; austrian novelist; modern european culture; winding sentences; anti-intellectualism
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