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The Loser (Paperback, New Edition)
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The Loser (Paperback, New Edition)
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List price R346
Loot Price R269
Discovery Miles 2 690
You Save R77 (22%)
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Reissued with stunning artwork and a new afterword by Leanne Shapton,
The Loser is Thomas Bernhard's iconic portrait of creative obsession.
Mid-century Austria. Three aspiring concert pianists - Wertheimer,
Glenn Gould, and the narrator - have dedicated their lives to achieving
the status of a virtuoso. But one day, two of them overhear Gould
playing Bach's Goldberg Variations, and his incomparable genius
instantly destroys them both.
They are forced to abandon their musical ambitions: Wertheimer, over a
tortured process of disintegration that sees him becoming obsessed with
both writing and his own sister, with whom he has a quasi-incestuous
relationship culminating in death; and the narrator, instantly,
retreating into obscurity to write a book that he periodically destroys
and restarts.
Written as a monologue in one remarkable unbroken paragraph, Thomas
Bernhard's dazzling meditation on failure, genius, and fame is a
radical new reading experience: musical, paralysing, raging, and
inimitable.
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