Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European
fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted
writers" (Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum).
And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samuel
Beckett, and Robert Musil, it is only in recent years that he has
gained a devoted cult following in America. A powerful, compact
novella, Walking provides a perfect introduction to the absurd,
dark, and uncommonly comic world of Bernhard, showing a
preoccupation with themes-illness and madness, isolation, tragic
friendships-that would obsess Bernhard throughout his career.
Walking records the conversations of the unnamed narrator and his
friend Oehler while they walk, discussing anything that comes to
mind but always circling back to their mutual friend Karrer, who
has gone irrevocably mad. Perhaps the most overtly philosophical
work in Bernhard's highly philosophical oeuvre, Walking provides a
penetrating meditation on the impossibility of truly thinking.
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