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Roithamer, a Wittgenstein-like character, is driven mad by his own frightening powers of pure thought, and commits suicide. The story traces the breakdown of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct and refine his perceptions. Bernhard's awards included the Bremen Prize and Le Prix Seguier.
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Astonishingly original, a composition of strange new beauty.
The Nation
As readers we are in the relentless grip of Bernhard. One marvels at the consistency of his austere vision.
The New York Times Book Review
Remarkable. . . . Bernhard s prose is lapidary and translucent.
Times Literary Supplement (London)
Little by little, with supernatural patience, prodigious cunning and craft like Joseph Heller in Catch-22 Bernhard fashions an original angle of vision that transforms our understanding. We see elephants beside us in a room where no one mentions elephants.
John Edgar Wideman, O, The OprahMagazine"
"Astonishingly original, a composition of strange new beauty."
--The Nation "As readers we are in the relentless grip of Bernhard. One marvels at the consistency of his austere vision."
--The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable. . . . Bernhard's prose is lapidary and translucent."
--Times Literary Supplement (London) "Little by little, with supernatural patience, prodigious cunning and craft--like Joseph Heller in Catch-22--Bernhard fashions an original angle of vision that transforms our understanding. We see elephants beside us in a room where no one mentions elephants."
--John Edgar Wideman, O, The Oprah Magazine
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The Nation
As readers we are in the relentless grip of Bernhard. One marvels at the consistency of his austere vision.
The New York Times Book Review
Remarkable. . . . Bernhard s prose is lapidary and translucent.
Times Literary Supplement (London)
Little by little, with supernatural patience, prodigious cunning and craft like Joseph Heller in Catch-22 Bernhard fashions an original angle of vision that transforms our understanding. We see elephants beside us in a room where no one mentions elephants.
John Edgar Wideman, O, The OprahMagazine"
"Astonishingly original, a composition of strange new beauty."
--The Nation "As readers we are in the relentless grip of Bernhard. One marvels at the consistency of his austere vision."
--The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable. . . . Bernhard's prose is lapidary and translucent."
--Times Literary Supplement (London) "Little by little, with supernatural patience, prodigious cunning and craft--like Joseph Heller in Catch-22--Bernhard fashions an original angle of vision that transforms our understanding. We see elephants beside us in a room where no one mentions elephants."
--John Edgar Wideman, O, The Oprah Magazine
'Thomas Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction. After Kafka's and Canetti's, his sensibility is one of the most acute, the most capable of exemplary images and gestures, in modern literature.' George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0394722108
- ISBN 13 9780394722108
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages271
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