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The 1985 comedy novel by Thomas Bernhard is a monologue. One long drawn out paragraph of sentences with multiple use of commas. It is an interesting story but the style makes it work to read. The story is about Reger as told by his Artzbacher who is mostly directly quoting Reger. Reger is an old man, he is a musicologist. Artzbacher is a philosopher. Reger is quite negative and disillusioned with life. The story mostly occurs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, specifically in the Bordone Room wher
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This is my second Bernhard, having previously read Wittgenstein's Nephew, which is also written in a stream of consciousness style. I began by thoroughly enjoying the old, erudite curmudgeon ranting on about everything which is wrong with the world, particularly the art world. Dare I admit, it rather seemed like a parody of my husband's pontifications in the last months of his life. There is no room for argument, one subject riffs into another and there is constant repetition. There are some ver
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