Concrete by Bernhard, Thomas

Concrete (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400077571)

Vendor: Thomas Bernhard
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Format: Paperback
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Concrete by Bernhard, Thomas

Concrete

$15.00
Concrete by Bernhard, Thomas

Concrete

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph's sister, whose help he invites, then reviles as malevolent meddling; his 'really marvelous' house, which he hates; the suspicious illness he carefully nurses; his ten-year-long attempt to write the perfect opening sentence; and, finally, his escape to the island of Majorca, which turns out to be the site of someone else's very real horror story.

A brilliant and haunting tale of procrastination, failure, and despair, Concrete is a perfect example of why Thomas Bernhard is remembered as "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner).

Author: Thomas Bernhard
ISBN-10: 1400077575
ISBN-13: 9781400077571
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2010
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.26w x 0.48d
By Thomas Bernhard
By Thomas Bernhard
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Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 and grew up in Austria. He studied music at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1957 he began a second career, as a playwright, poet, and novelist. The winner of the three most distinguished and coveted literary prizes awarded in Germany, he has become one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation. He published nine novels, an autobiography, one volume of poetry, four collections of short stories, and six volumes of plays. Thomas Bernhard died in Austria in 1989.

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