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The Rest Is Slander - Five Stories (Hardcover)
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The Rest Is Slander - Five Stories (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R519
Discovery Miles 5 190
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A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of
twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. "The cold
increases with the clarity," said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a
major literary prize in 1965. That clarity was the postwar
realization that the West's last remaining cultural reference
points were being swept away by the ever-greater commodification of
humankind. Collecting five stylistically transitional tales by
Bernhard, all of which take place in sites of extreme cold, this
volume extends that bleak vision of the master Austrian
storyteller. In "Ungenach," the reluctant heir of an enormous
estate chooses to give away his legacy to an assortment of oddballs
as he discovers the past of his older brother, who was murdered
during a career in futile colonialist philanthropy. In "The
Weatherproof Cape," a lawyer tries to maintain a sense of familial
solidarity with a now-dead client with the help of an unremarkable
piece of clothing. "Midland in Stilfs" casts a jaundiced eye on the
laughable efforts of a cosmopolitan foreigner to attain local
authenticity on a moribund Alpine farmstead. In "At the Ortler,"
two middle-aged brothers-one a scientist, the other an
acrobat-meditate on their unusual career paths while they climb a
mountain to reclaim a long-abandoned family property. And in "At
the Timberline," the unexpected arrival of a young couple in a
mountain village leads to the discovery of a scandalous crime that
casts a shadow on the personal life of the policeman investigating
it.
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