Gargoyles by Bernhard, Thomas

Gargoyles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400077557)

Vendor: Thomas Bernhard
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$19.00
$19.00
$19.00
Subtotal: $19.00
Gargoyles by Bernhard, Thomas

Gargoyles

$19.00
Gargoyles by Bernhard, Thomas

Gargoyles

$19.00
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x

The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary prizes in Germany. Gargoyles, one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal study of the nature of humanity.

One morning a doctor and his son set out on daily rounds through the grim mountainous Austrian countryside. They observe the colorful characters they encounter--from an innkeeper whose wife has been murdered to a crippled musical prodigy kept in a cage--coping with physical misery, madness, and the brutality of the austere landscape. The parade of human grotesques culminates in a hundred-page monologue by an eccentric, paranoid prince, a relentlessly flowing cascade of words that is classic Bernhard.



Author: Thomas Bernhard
ISBN-10: 1400077559
ISBN-13: 9781400077557
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2006
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.26w x 0.58d
By Thomas Bernhard
By Thomas Bernhard
x
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. His novels published in English include Gargoyles, The Lime Works, Correction, Concrete, Woodcutters, and Wittgenstein's Nephew; a number of his plays have been produced off Broadway, at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and at theaters in London and throughout Europe. The five segments of his memoir were published in one volume, Gathering Evidence, in 1985. Thomas Bernhard died in 1989.

Recently Viewed Products