Old Masters: A Comedy

Title: Old Masters: A Comedy
Author: Thomas Bernhard
ISBN: 9780226043913
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 160
Publisher Description: 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