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Concrete (Vintage International (Paperback)) (Paperback)(English / German)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for ConcreteInstead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of procrastination, failure, and despair, a dark and grotesquely funny story of small woes writ large and profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. A book of mysterious dark beauty.--"Los Angeles Times."
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books USA
- Published: 10 August 2010
- Format: Paperback 155 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781400077571 ISBN 10: 1400077575
- Sales rank: 108,844
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Full description for Concrete
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph's sister, whose help he invites, then reviles as malevolent meddling; his 'really marvelous' house, which he hates; the suspicious illness he carefully nurses; his ten-year-long attempt to write the perfect opening sentence; and, finally, his escape to the island of Majorca, which turns out to be the site of someone else's very real horror story. A brilliant and haunting tale of procrastination, failure, and despair, "Concrete" is a perfect example of why Thomas Bernhard is remembered as "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner).
