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Woodcutters (Paperback)
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Woodcutters (Paperback)
Series: Vintage International
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List price R424
Loot Price R355
Discovery Miles 3 550
You Save R69 (16%)
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This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as
the writer-narrator arrives at an 'artistic dinner' given by a
composer and his society wife--a couple that the writer once
admired and has come to loathe. The guest of honor, an actor from
the Burgtheater, is late. As the other guests wait impatiently,
they are seen through the critical eye of the narrator, who begins
a silent but frenzied, sometimes maniacal, and often ambivalent
tirade against these former friends, most of whom were brought
together by the woman whom they had buried that day. Reflections on
Joana's life and suicide are mixed with these denunciations until
the famous actor arrives, bringing a culmination to the evening for
which the narrator had not even thought to hope.
"Mr. Bernhard's portrait of a society in dissolution has a
Scandinavian darkness reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg, but it
is filtered through a minimalist prose. . . . "Woodcutters" offers
an unusually intense, engrossing literary experience."--Mark
Anderson, "New York Times Book Review"
"Musical, dramatic and set in Vienna, "Woodcutters," . . .resembles
a Strauss operetta with a libretto by Beckett."--Joseph Costes,
"Chicago Tribune"
"Thomas Bernhard, the great pessimist-rhapsodist of German
literature . . . never compromises, never makes peace with life. .
. . Only in the pure, fierce isolation of his art can he get
justice."--Michael Feingold, "Village Voice"
"In typical Bernhardian fashion the narrator is moved by hatred
"and" affection for a society that he believes destroys the very
artistic genius it purports to glorify. A superb
translation."--"Library Journal"
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