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Concrete | Thomas Bernhard
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Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been hailed by Gabriel Josipovici as 'Austria's finest postwar writer' and by George Steiner as 'one of the masters of contemporary European fiction.' Faber Finds is proud to reissue a selection of four of Bernhard's finest novels. Concrete (1982) is a brilliant and haunting tale of procrastination, failure, and despair: the story of Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, who neglects the work he is meant to be producing in favour of this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction: from a meddling sister and a house that he hates, to an 'illness' he carefully nurses, his own very real writer's block, and an 'escape' to Majorca which brings him no release from himself.'Masterful... A book of mysterious dark beauty.' John Rechy, Los Angeles TimesA masterpiece.' New Yorker
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Concrete | Thomas Bernhard
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Because @vivastory mentioned Bernard I thought I‘d grab mine . I loved Concrete, kept this little volume for years now .picked up Prose from a U of Chicago sale catalog, haven‘t read it yet . It includes 7 stories first published in German in 1967.I believe I also read one of his called Correction.

vivastory That cover of Prose!!! If I recall correctly I read Correction many years ago as well 3y
Leftcoastzen @vivastory I think it is included in the current U of Chicago sale for $7. Of course you will find more items I bet . https://press.uchicago.edu/resource/Sale_catalog.html (edited) 3y
vivastory Linda, STOP. J/K, tell me more! 💲💲📚📚 3y
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Liz_M Hunh. I did not get on with Wittgenstein's Nephew and have been avoiding the rest of Bernhard's 1001-list books. Have you read WN @vivastory, @Leftcoastzen @BarbaraBB? Would you recommend Extinction, Correction, Concrete, Yes? 3y
Liz_M Hunh. I did not get on with Wittgenstein's Nephew and have been avoiding the rest of Bernhard's 1001-list books. Have you read WN @vivastory, @Leftcoastzen @BarbaraBB? Would you recommend Extinction, Correction, Concrete, Yes? 3y
Leftcoastzen @Liz_M I can‘t remember the details but I was really impressed with Concrete. 3y
vivastory I ordered 3 books that I found on the University of Chicago Sale that intrigued me: Bernhard's Prose, Nightwatches of Bonaventura, & Mo Yan's Pow! (edited) 3y
Leftcoastzen @vivastory I remembered POW! I had go back and look at Bonaventura .Now you‘ve done it , you are on the mailing list!😄both look interesting. 3y
vivastory Hard to resist at that price. I had never heard of Nightwatches, but it sounds so intriguing. Thanks for the link! 3y
BarbaraBB I LOVED Concrete. And also Old Masters. My next one will be 3y
batsy Nice! One of the authors I've been telling myself I need to check out. 3y
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It was about time I started reading my first Bernhard. To my surprise it turned out to be an easy read. What's more, I liked it a lot. For example the way Rudolph thinks, the twists in his mind about his sister, his house and Vienna. Bernhard formulates them so easily, yet effectively. Really impressive, as was the unexpected end of this short novel. I wouldn't call it uplifting but certainly recommend it. #1001books Picture: Dining at PureC

Jinjer Ugh. Who ARE you and why are you writing such inticing book reviews? Stacked!!!😡 7y
BarbaraBB @Jinjer I'm sorry😀! I just arrived at Litsy and am uploading the reviews I wrote since 2013. Give me a few more days, then I am done and quietly reading again! 7y
Jinjer @BarbaraBB I am loving all the reviews!!! I'm glad you're tagging them so I can go back & read ones I've missed! 7y
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GoneFishing @jinjer @barbarabb well said jinjer! Great reviews barbarabb! #litsypenpals 7y
BarbaraBB @jdtchicago Thank you. You are reading the 1001 list as well? 7y
GoneFishing @barbarabb I mine as well read the 1001 list as I just added a bunch of your reviewed books to my TBR. ICYMI, Check out #litsypenpals--signup ends July 7. 7y
SqueakyChu Good to hear. I‘m reading a different Bernhard book now and was thinking of later trying another one. This one looks doable. 6y
BarbaraBB @SqueakyChu It is! Which one are you reading? I also read and liked 6y
SqueakyChu @BarbaraBB I‘m about 2/3 through 6y
SqueakyChu I finished The Loser. It was an amazing read! 6y
BarbaraBB @SqueakyChu that is so good to know. I really want to read more Bernhard! 6y
SqueakyChu @BarbaraBB Me, too! Read about the author as well. Too bad he is not more widely read in the U.S. 6y
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