In 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...
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In 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.
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
- ISBN10 0704327104
- ISBN13 9780704327108
- Publish Date 1 May 1989
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 20 May 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Quartet Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 156
- Language English
