The Loser by Bernhard, Thomas

The Loser (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400077540)

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The Loser by Bernhard, Thomas

The Loser

$17.00
The Loser by Bernhard, Thomas

The Loser

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is incomparably his own.One of Bernhard's most acclaimed novels, The Loser centers on a fictional relationship between piano virtuoso Glenn Gould and two of his fellow students who feel compelled to renounce their musical ambitions in the face of Gould's incomparable genius. One commits suicide, while the other-- the obsessive, witty, and self-mocking narrator-- has retreated into obscurity. Written as a monologue in one remarkable unbroken paragraph, The Loser is a brilliant meditation on success, failure, genius, and fame.

Author: Thomas Bernhard
ISBN-10: 1400077540
ISBN-13: 9781400077540
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2006
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
New Yorker (The) 06/23/2008 pg. 79
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. 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.

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