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.
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