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Woodcutters

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University of CHICAGO Press, 1989 - 181 Seiten
This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at an 'artistic dinner' given by a composer and his society wife—a couple that the writer once admired and has come to loathe. The guest of honor, an actor from the Burgtheater, is late. As the other guests wait impatiently, they are seen through the critical eye of the narrator, who begins a silent but frenzied, sometimes maniacal, and often ambivalent tirade against these former friends, most of whom were brought together by the woman whom they had buried that day. Reflections on Joana's life and suicide are mixed with these denunciations until the famous actor arrives, bringing a culmination to the evening for which the narrator had not even thought to hope.

"Mr. Bernhard's portrait of a society in dissolution has a Scandinavian darkness reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg, but it is filtered through a minimalist prose. . . .Woodcuttersoffers an unusually intense, engrossing literary experience."—Mark Anderson,New York Times Book Review

"Musical, dramatic and set in Vienna,Woodcutters. . . .resembles a Strauss operetta with a libretto by Beckett."—Joseph Costes,Chicago Tribune

"Thomas Bernhard, the great pessimist-rhapsodist of German literature . . . never compromises, never makes peace with life. . . . Only in the pure, fierce isolation of his art can he get justice."—Michael Feingold,Village Voice

"In typical Bernhardian fashion the narrator is moved by hatredandaffection for a society that he believes destroys the very artistic genius it purports to glorify. A superb translation."—Library Journal

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Nutzerbericht  - Juan - Goodreads

Witness the vitriolic rantings of a misanthrope, not unlike those of the Underground man of Dostoevsky (this book could very well be the prolongation of the dinner party in Apropos of Wet Snow in ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

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Nutzerbericht  - Andrew - Goodreads

Thomas Bernhard has a formidable reputation so I expected this to be a diffcult read. However, while it was dense and the tone intense, I found it an enjoyable and at times playful read. A case of ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

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Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
Woodcutters. This is a drawing room farce or tragedy, an Austrian version of WHOSE AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF -- could that association actually be why Jennie ...
www.webster.edu/ ~corbetre/ personal/ reading/ bernhard-woodcutters.html

Dispatches from Zembla: Thomas Bernhard: Woodcutters
There is a very astute observation by Mark Anderson on the back cover of Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters. He says, "One can write continuously and still have ...
marcelproust.blogspot.com/ 2007/ 10/ thomas-bernhard-woodcutters.html

BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Misanthropic View - New York Times
A stream-of-consciousness soliloquy (diatribe, might be a better word), ''Woodcutters'' takes place during a lengthy dinner party in Vienna as the narrator, ...
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German Literature: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Thomas Bernhard: Woodcutters Phoenix/University of Chicago Press 1989 ... Link to essay about Woodcutters (Webster University link). GÜNTER GRASS (b. 1927) ...
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Introductory essay -- Thomas Bernhard
The second novel, The Woodcutters, presents a satirical portrait of high culture as practiced by the Viennese elite. The publication of this novel, ...
www.thomasbernhard.org/ cousineautbintro.shtml

VOLUME 2, 2006 Teaching "The Culture of Vienna" as an Enrichment ...
as passages in The Woodcutters or any number of other texts by Thomas. Bernhard. ... The Woodcutters. Trans. David mcclintock. New York: Knopf, 1987. ...
www.malca.org/ ta/ v2/ 2-06saur.pdf

Brian Evenson - Notes on Fiction and Philosophy - symploke 12:1
Woodcutters and foresters are familiar with these paths. ... Heidegger doesn't acknowledge that foresters and woodcutters, "know what it means to be on a ...
muse.jhu.edu/ journals/ symploke/ v012/ 12.1evenson.html

Salon Books | Anti-heroes
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard This Austrian author is easily the greatest novelist to ... "Woodcutters" is the story of an "artistic dinner" in Vienna, ...
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Jim H's Shelf of 20th century Books - Shelfari
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Über den Autor (1989)

Thomas Bernhard was born to Austrian parents in Holland and reared by his mother in the vicinity of Salzburg. His temperament and erratic health created difficulties for him as he grew up in a society governed by National Socialists. Bernhard found the alpine landscapes of his native Austria far more harsh than lyrical. The isolation of the characters in his novels is only slightly mitigated by friendship, generally only between men, and never by love. Yet many readers feel this lack of sentimentality gives Bernhard's work an epic power.

Thomas Bernhard was born in 1931 and grew up in Salzburg and in Vienna, where he studied music. In 1957 he began a second career as a playwright, poet, and novelist. A winner of the three most distinguished and coveted literary prizes awarded in Germany, he is one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation. His works already published in English include the novels Gargoyles, Tire Lime Works, Correction, Concrete, Woodcutters, Wittgenstein's Nephew, and The Loser, and a memoir, Gathering Evidence. A number of his plays have been produced off-Broadway and at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and at theaters in London and throughout Europe. Thomas Bernhard died in 1989.
For his translations of works by Thomas Bernhard, David McLintock was awarded an Austrian state prize in 1986, and in 1990 he won the SchlegelTieck Prize for his translation of Heinrich Boll's Women in a River Landscape. Mr. McLintock graduated from Oxford University, studied in Munster and Munich, and now lives in London.

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TitelWoodcutters
Phoenix Fiction Series
AutorThomas Bernhard
Übersetzt vonDavid McLintock
AusgabeNeuauflage
VerlagUniversity of CHICAGO Press, 1989
ISBN0226043967, 9780226043968
Länge181 Seiten
  
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