The Rest Is Slander

Name: The Rest Is Slander
Brand: Seagull Books
SKU: 9781803094496
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Autor: Douglas Robertson, Doulgas Robertson

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A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literatu...

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Autor

Douglas Robertson, Doulgas Robertson

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2024

Stránek

212

EAN

9781803094496

ISBN

1803094494

Enbook ID

45223056

Vydavatel

Seagull Books

Hmotnost

300

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 18

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A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. “The cold increases with the clarity,” said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a major literary prize in 1965. That clarity was the postwar realization that the West’s last remaining cultural reference points were being swept away by the ever-greater commodification of humankind. Collecting five stylistically transitional tales by Bernhard, all of which take place in sites of extreme cold, this volume extends that bleak vision of the master Austrian storyteller. In “Ungenach,” the reluctant heir of an enormous estate chooses to give away his legacy to an assortment of oddballs as he discovers the past of his older brother, who was murdered during a career in futile colonialist philanthropy. In “The Weatherproof Cape,” a lawyer tries to maintain a sense of familial solidarity with a now-dead client with the help of an unremarkable piece of clothing. “Midland in Stilfs” casts a jaundiced eye on the laughable efforts of a cosmopolitan foreigner to attain local authenticity on a moribund Alpine farmstead. In “At the Ortler,” two middle-aged brothers—one a scientist, the other an acrobat—meditate on their unusual career paths while they climb a mountain to reclaim a long-abandoned family property. And in “At the Timberline,” the unexpected arrival of a young couple in a mountain village leads to the discovery of a scandalous crime that casts a shadow on the personal life of the policeman investigating it.

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