EAN: 9780241459423

PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS OLD MASTERS - THOMAS ...

'Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction'George SteinerOld Masters
(1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men.For
over thirty years Reger  a music critic  has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto
painting in a Viennese museum  thinking and railing against contemporary society  his fellow
men  artists  the weather  even the state of public lavatories. His friend Atzbacher has been
summoned to meet him  and through his eyes we learn more about Reger - the tragic death of his
wife  his thoughts of suicide and  eventually  the true purpose of their appointment. At once
pessimistic and exuberant  rancorous and hilarious  Old Masters is a richly satirical portrait
of culture  genius  nationhood  class  the value of art and the pretensions of humanity.

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