Gargoyles
Author: Bernhard, Thomas
ISBN: 9781400077557
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 17 Oct 2006
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
p>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. i>Gargoyles, /i>one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal study of the nature of humanity./p>p>/p>p>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./p>
ISBN: 9781400077557
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 17 Oct 2006
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
p>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. i>Gargoyles, /i>one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal study of the nature of humanity./p>p>/p>p>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./p>
