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Three Novellas
Thomas Bernhard
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Description for Three Novellas
Hardcover. Two out of the three novellas here have never before been published in English and they contain all the touchstones of Bernhard's work - illness and madness, isolation, tragic friendships, and dark humour. Translator(s): Jansen, Peter; Northcott, Kenneth. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 382.
Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (New York Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). His evocations and descriptions of the constant psychic crisis brought on by modern life have earned him favourable comparison to Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Robert Musil, yet Bernhard is still not as widely read in the United States as he deserves to be. Uninitiated readers should consider "Three Novellas" a passport to the absurd, bleak and uncommonly comic world of Bernhard. Two out of the three novellas here have ... Read more
Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (New York Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). His evocations and descriptions of the constant psychic crisis brought on by modern life have earned him favourable comparison to Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Robert Musil, yet Bernhard is still not as widely read in the United States as he deserves to be. Uninitiated readers should consider "Three Novellas" a passport to the absurd, bleak and uncommonly comic world of Bernhard. Two out of the three novellas here have ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226044323
SKU
V9780226044323
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