ConcreteQuartet, 1989 - 154 Seiten Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph's sister, whose help he invites, then reviles as malevolent meddling; his 'really marvelous' house, which he hates; the suspicious illness he carefully nurses; his ten-year-long attempt to write the perfect opening sentence; and, finally, his escape to the island of Majorca, which turns out to be the site of someone else's very real horror story. A brilliant and haunting tale of procrastination, failure, and despair, "Concrete" is a perfect example of why Thomas Bernhard is remembered as "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner). |
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... ourselves when we ought to overrate ourselves . And above all we always overrate what- ever we plan to do , for , if the truth were known , every intellectual work , like every other work , is grossly overrated , and there is no ...
... ourselves when we ought to overrate ourselves . And above all we always overrate what- ever we plan to do , for , if the truth were known , every intellectual work , like every other work , is grossly overrated , and there is no ...
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... ourselves one hundred per cent to every- thing we do , my father always said . He said it to everybody - to my mother , to my sisters , to me . If we don't commit ourselves one hundred per cent we fail even before we've begun . But what ...
... ourselves one hundred per cent to every- thing we do , my father always said . He said it to everybody - to my mother , to my sisters , to me . If we don't commit ourselves one hundred per cent we fail even before we've begun . But what ...
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... ourselves or anything else . We didn't make ourselves . And instead of start- ing work on Mendelssohn , as I had been fully deter- mined to do , having believed at half past three that I had in fact suddenly got the ideal conditions ...
... ourselves or anything else . We didn't make ourselves . And instead of start- ing work on Mendelssohn , as I had been fully deter- mined to do , having believed at half past three that I had in fact suddenly got the ideal conditions ...
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