The Loser (Paperback, New Edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2019
Authors:	Thomas Bernhard
Translators:	Jack Dawson
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
Edition:	New Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-34997-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-571-34997-8
Barcode:	9780571349975

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