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In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacherwho fears Reger's plans to kill himselfgives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love-hate relationship with art. With characteristically acerbic wit, Bernhard exposes the pretensions and aspirations of humanity in a novel at once pessimistic and strangely exhilarating. "Bernhard's . . . most enjoyable novel."Robert Craft, New York Review of Books. "Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction." George Steiner

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  • Contemporary
  • Literary
  • Satire

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