Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard
The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary prizes in Germany. Gargoyles, one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal study of the nature of humanity.
One morning a doctor and his son set out on daily rounds through the grim mountainous Austrian countryside. They observe the colorful characters they encounter-from an innkeeper whose wife has been murdered to a crippled musical prodigy kept in a cage-coping with physical misery, madness, and the brutality of the austere landscape. The parade of human grotesques culminates in a hundred-page monologue by an eccentric, paranoid prince, a relentlessly flowing cascade of words that is classic Bernhard.
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Never Let Me Go
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The Road
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Beloved
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The Bluest Eye
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In Cold Blood
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Lolita
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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The Remains of the Day
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All the Pretty Horses
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Blood Meridian
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Song of Solomon
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The Fire Next Time
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Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick
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No Country for Old Men
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Sula
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As I Lay Dying
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Norwegian Wood
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Kafka on the Shore
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Giovanni's Room
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Independent People
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Perfume
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
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The Plague
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A Fine Balance
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The Sound and the Fury
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The Woman Warrior
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1Q84
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Ulysses
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White Teeth
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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The English Patient
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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The Crossing
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Possession
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The Master and Margarita
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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The Fall
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Written on the Body
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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Jazz
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Absalom, Absalom!
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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The Buried Giant
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The Plot Against America
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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American Pastoral
Thomas Bernhardt studied Business Administration, Law, and International Relations after being born in Hohenems, Austria, in 1972. He has worked in industry in Europe, North America, and Asia since 1996, holding several General Management positions. The author graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science's Executive Master of Science degree in International Strategy and Diplomacy in 2018.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781400077557 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400077559 |
| Title | Gargoyles |
| Author | Thomas Bernhard |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2006-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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