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Goethe Dies
Series: German List
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Goethe Dies
Collection of four short stories. Underpinning all these variously comic, tragic, and bitingly satirical excursions is Bernhard’s abiding interest in, and deep knowledge of, the philosophy of doubt.
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This collection of four stories is, as long-time fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous.
The subjects of the stories vary: in one, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; 'Montaigne: A Story in Twenty-Two Instalments' tells of a young man sealing himself in a tower to read; 'Reunion', meanwhile, satirises that very impulse to escape. The final story rounds out the collection by making Bernhard himself a victim, persecuted by his greatest enemy, his very homeland of Austria.
Underpinning all these variously comic, tragic, and bitingly satirical excursions is Bernhard's abiding interest in, and deep knowledge of, the philosophy of doubt.
Series: German List
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ISBN: 9780857427052
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 September 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Contributors:
- Translated by James Reidel
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) grew up in Salzburg and Vienna, where he studied music. In 1957 he began a second career as a playwright, poet, and novelist. He went on to win many of the most prestigious literary prizes of Europe (including the Austrian State Prize, the Bremen and Brchner prizes, and Le Prix Seguier), became one of the most widely admired writers of his generation, and insisted at his death that none of his works be published in Austria for seventy years, a provision later repealed by his half-brother.
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