Old Masters: A Comedy by Bernhard, Thomas

Old Masters: A Comedy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780857424709)

Vendor: Thomas Bernhard
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Format: Paperback
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Old Masters: A Comedy by Bernhard, Thomas

Old Masters: A Comedy

$21.50
Old Masters: A Comedy by Bernhard, Thomas

Old Masters: A Comedy

$21.50
Format: Paperback
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Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's White-Bearded Man, on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as two typically Viennese pedants (serving as alter egos for Bernhard himself) irreverently, even contemptuously take down high culture, society, state-supported artists, Heidegger, and much more.

It's a book built on thought and conversation rather than action or visuals. Yet somehow celebrated Austrian cartoonist Nicholas Mahler has brought it to life in graphic form--and it's brilliant. This volume presents Mahler's typically minimalist cartoons alongside new translations of selected passages from the novel. The result is a version of Old Masters that is strikingly new, yet still true to Bernhard's bleak vision, and to the novel's outrageous proposition that the perfect work of art is truly unbearable to even think about--let alone behold.

Author: Thomas Bernhard
ISBN-10: 085742470X
ISBN-13: 9780857424709
Publisher: Seagull Books
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2018
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.70w x 0.60d
By Thomas Bernhard
By Thomas Bernhard
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Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) was a playwright, poet, and novelist. He won many of the most prestigious literary prizes of Europe, including the Austrian State Prize, the Bremen and Br?hner prizes, and Le Prix S馮uier. Nicolas Mahler is a prolific writer and cartoonist. He has also reimagined Thomas Bernhard's controversial play The World Betterer (Der Weltverbesserer) as a graphic novel, which will be published in an English translation by Seagull Books in 2018. James Reidel is a poet, biographer and translator.

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