Mid-century Austria. Three aspiring concert pianists - Wertheimer, Glenn Gould, and the narrator - have dedicated their lives to achieving the status of a virtuoso. But one day, two of them overhear Gould playing Bach's Goldberg Variations, and his incomparable genius instantly destroys them both. They are forced to abandon their musical ambitions: Wertheimer, over a tortured process of disintegration that sees him becoming obsessed with both writing and his own sister, with whom he has a quasi-incestuous relationship culminating in death; and the narrator, instantly, retreating into obs The Loser - Thomas Bernhard od authora Thomas Bernhard a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Thomas Bernhard |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
192 |
Rok vydání |
2019 |
Nakladatelství |
Faber and Faber |