Thomas BernhardVezi magazinul LibrisIn 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.
