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Concrete by Thomas Bernhard
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Probably nothing exists that would prepare one for Bernhard's machined vehemence, though once you've read one, you perhaps start to crave the bitter taste and the savage not-quite-humour ... Genius.' - Michael Hofmann Instead of the book he is meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces ...Show more
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, "Extinction "is widely considered Thomas Bernhard's magnum opus. Franz-Josef Murau--the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family--lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artisti ...Show more
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Extinction features, without doubt, the funniest passage in the whole of literature. The dreadful becomes hilarious, joyful - and it makes one thirst for more of the similar.' - Geoff Dyer Franz-Josef Murau is the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family. He now lives in Rome ...Show more
Old Masters by BERNHARD THOMAS
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics
"Old Masters (1985)" is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, art ...Show more
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Thomas Bernhard, one of the most distinct, celebrated, and perverse of 20th century writers, took his own life in 1989. Perhaps the greatest Austrian writer of the 20th century, Bernhard's vision in novels like "Woodcutters" was relentlessly bleak and comically nihilistic. His prose is torrential and hi ...Show more
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Penetrating and satirical ... Superbly distinctive and provocative.' - New York Times An unnamed writer arrives at an 'artistic dinner' hosted by a composer and his society wife: a couple he once admired, but has now come to detest. They have been brought together by their friend Joana's suicide, but ...Show more
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