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13%OFFThomas Bernhard - Walking - 9780226311043 - V9780226311043
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Walking

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Description for Walking Paperback. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 154.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226311043
SKU
V9780226311043
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) grew up in Salzburg and Vienna, where he studied music. In 1957 he began a second career as a playwright, poet, and novelist. He went on to win many of the most prestigious literary prizes of Europe (including the Austrian State Prize, the Bremen and Bruchner prizes, and Le Prix Seguier), became one of the most widely ... Read more

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