Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's White-Bearded Man, on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as two typically Viennese pedants (serving as alter egos for Bernhard himself) irreverently, even contemptuously take down high culture, society, state-supported artists, Heidegger, and much more. It's a book built on thought and conversation rather than action or visuals. Yet somehow celebrated Austrian cartoonist Nicholas Mahler has brought it to life in graphic form and it's brilliant. This volume presents Mahler's typically minimalist cartoons alongside new translations of selected passages from the novel. The result is a version of Old Masters that is strikingly new, yet still true to Bernhard's bleak vision, and to the novel's outrageous proposition that the perfect work of art is truly unbearable to even think about let alone behold.-
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The Flying Mountain
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Holderlin
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Sebastian Dreaming
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Air Raid
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Monsters Like Us
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Gone But Not Forgotten
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Atlas of an Anxious Man
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The Village Indian
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The Silences of Hammerstein
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Kazimira
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Myself, Four Times
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Without Model
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The Idiots
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‘We Didn’t Do Very Well’
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At the Burning Abyss
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In Search of Lost Time
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Blumenberg
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Rubble Flora
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A History of Clouds
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'I'
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A Slap in the Face
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Night Music
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Rummelplatz
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Bad Sheep
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Arson
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Lifespan Narratives
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Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow
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The Long March of Basic Trust
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My Mother's Silver Fox
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In the Forest of Metropoles
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Circus Commentary
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Orpheus in the Underworld
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A Skeleton Plays Violin
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The Rest Is Slander
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War Primer
Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) was a playwright, poet, and novelist. He won many of the most prestigious literary prizes of Europe, including the Austrian State Prize, the Bremen and Bruchner prizes, and Le Prix Seguier. Nicolas Mahler is a prolific writer and cartoonist. He has also reimagined Thomas Bernhard's controversial play The World Betterer (Der Weltverbesserer) as a graphic novel, which will be published in an English translation by Seagull Books in 2018. James Reidel is a poet, biographer and translator.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780857424709 |
| ISBN 10 | 085742470X |
| Title | Old Masters |
| Author | Thomas Bernhard |
| Series | The German List |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-10-12 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |