by Thomas Bernhard
translated by James Reidel
This collection of four stories is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The stories’ subject varies: in the first, which lends this volume its title, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus; in ‘Montaigne: A Story in Twenty-Two Instalments’, a young man seals himself in a tower to read; ‘Reunion’, meanwhile, satirises that very impulse to escape; and the final story rounds out the collection by making Bernhard himself a victim, persecuted by his greatest enemy–his homeland of Austria.
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Condition: Good
Publisher: Seagull Books
Publication Date: 2016
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780857423276
by Thomas Bernhard
translated by James Reidel
This collection of four stories is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The stories’ subject varies: in the first, which lends this volume its title, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus; in ‘Montaigne: A Story in Twenty-Two Instalments’, a young man seals himself in a tower to read; ‘Reunion’, meanwhile, satirises that very impulse to escape; and the final story rounds out the collection by making Bernhard himself a victim, persecuted by his greatest enemy–his homeland of Austria.
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Condition: Good
Publisher: Seagull Books
Publication Date: 2016
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780857423276
