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Old Masters
Old Masters | Thomas Bernhard
6 posts | 7 read | 1 reading | 10 to read
Old Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, artists, the weather, even the state of public lavatories. His friend Atzbacher has been summoned to meet him, and through his eyes we learn more about Reger - the tragic death of his wife, his thoughts of suicide and, eventually, the true purpose of their appointment. At once pessimistic and exuberant, rancorous and hilarious, Old Masters is a richly satirical portrait of culture, genius, nationhood, class, the value of art and the pretensions of humanity.
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Ladygodiva7
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
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
LaurentDM
Oude meesters | Thomas Bernhard
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Pickpick

A monkey painting its portrait. The cover of OUDE MEESTERS confirms Thomas Bernhard's views on art and artists.

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BarbaraBB
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
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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