Old Masters
A Comedy
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher—who fears Reger’s plans to kill himself—gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love-hate relationship with
art. With characteristically acerbic wit, Bernhard exposes the pretensions and aspirations of humanity in a novel at once pessimistic and strangely exhilarating.
“Bernhard’s . . . most enjoyable novel.”—Robert Craft, New York Review of Books.
“Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction.”—George Steiner
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