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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... write a profound work on the composer Mendelssohn , but after years of research he feels prevented from writing even the first sentence of his book because of the inhibiting influence of his domineering sister . He decides to take a ...
... write a profound work on the composer Mendelssohn , but after years of research he feels prevented from writing even the first sentence of his book because of the inhibiting influence of his domineering sister . He decides to take a ...
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... writer for the breathless intensity with which he delineated inner geographies , the unceas- ing monologues inside our ... write , takes them back , modifies , corrects and then contradicts them . Every kind of distraction is , or may be ...
... writer for the breathless intensity with which he delineated inner geographies , the unceas- ing monologues inside our ... write , takes them back , modifies , corrects and then contradicts them . Every kind of distraction is , or may be ...
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... write it down . Very often we write down a sentence too early , then another too late ; what we have to do is to write it down at the proper time , otherwise it's lost . My work of Mendelssohn Bartholdy is of course a literary work , I ...
... write it down . Very often we write down a sentence too early , then another too late ; what we have to do is to write it down at the proper time , otherwise it's lost . My work of Mendelssohn Bartholdy is of course a literary work , I ...
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