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Oude meesters
Oude meesters | Thomas Bernhard
Gesprekken en gedachten over kunst en het culturele klimaat in Oostenrijk van een muziekfilosoof en een geleerde.
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Ladygodiva7
Old Masters | Thomas Bernhard
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I‘ve got 41 pages left to read and it‘s been over a week. Currently holding down my Daily Bible pages while hanging out with Booker. Not a fan of this book‘s run on sentences so it‘s taking me forever. 🙄

I still plan on finishing it. Not good at DNFs!!

#catsoflitsy

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Ladygodiva7
Old Masters | Thomas Bernhard
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Book 23 of 2021. #Reading1001 #1001Books

Run on sentences, here we go…

BarbaraBB I loved this one! 3y
Ladygodiva7 @BarbaraBB Oh good, gives me hope! 3y
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LaurentDM
Oude meesters | Thomas Bernhard
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A monkey painting its portrait. The cover of OUDE MEESTERS confirms Thomas Bernhard's views on art and artists.

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BarbaraBB
Old Masters | Thomas Bernhard
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For more than 30 years Reger has spend his mornings in the art history museum in Vienna. He is filled with a deep disgust of almost anything. He complains about Vienna, Austria and the Austrians, about writers, composers, philosophers and especially the Old Masters of painting. The reason for Reger‘s hating the arts becomes slowly clear: after the death of his wife, art is the only thing he can still cling to. #1001books

QuintusMarcus I thought I'd read all of Bernhardt's works, but I may have missed this one. I read them all as they were first appearing in English, back in the 80s and 90s. Except for his last novel, which I read in German. That was a trip, I can tell you! 7y
BarbaraBB @QuintusMarcus How cool. My German is not good enough. I would have liked to read them in my own language, Dutch, because it is so close to German. Unfortunately all his work is out of print here. People here have already forgotten about Bernhard, which is really a shame! 7y
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BarbaraBB
Old Masters | Thomas Bernhard
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“I suffer from what I call art selfishness: where art is concerned, I wish to have everything for myself alone.... I should like to think that Goya painted only for me, that Gogol and Goethe wrote only for me, that Bach composed only for me.”

(Picture: Tintoretto, ‘Man with a white beard‘, the painting this book is about)

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