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  Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction) (Paperback) By (author) Thomas Bernhard, Translated by Ewald Osers

  

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  Short Description for Old MastersIn 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 t...
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  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Published: 31 December 1985
  • Format: Paperback 160 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780226043913 ISBN 10: 0226043916
  • Sales rank: 152,835

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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. "Bernhard's . . . most enjoyable novel."--Robert Craft, "New York Review of Books." "Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction." --George Steiner