LRB BOOKSHOPS AUTHOR OF THE MONTH ONE OF THE GUARDIANS BEST BOOKS OF 2019If you havent read Bernhard, you will not know of the most radical advance in fiction since Joyce ... My advice dive in. Lucy EllmannI absolutely love Bernhard he is one of the darkest and funniest writers ... A must read for everybody. Karl Ove KnausgaardMidcentury Austria. Three aspiring concert pianists Wertheimer, Glenn Gould, and the narrator have dedicated their lives to achieving the status of a virtuoso. But one day, two of them overhear Gould playing Bachs Goldberg Variations, and his incomparable genius instantly destroys them both. They are forced to abandon their musical ambitions Wertheimer, over a tortured process of disintegration that sees him becoming obsessed with both writing and his own sister, with whom he has a quasiincestuous relationship culminating in death and the narrator, instantly, retreating into obscurity to write a book that he periodically destroys and restarts. Written as a monologue in one remarkable unbroken paragraph, Thomas Bernhards dazzling meditation on failure, genius, and fame is a radical new reading experience musical, paralysing, raging, and inimitable.

Binding: Paperback;192 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 280 g; Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 12

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