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Thomas Bernhard

1967208 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1967
first published
  • 1970Knopf · 208 pages · ENG
  • 1986University of Chicago Press · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780226043999
  • 2006Vintage International · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9781400077557

"One morning a doctor and his son set out on daily rounds through the grim mountainous Austrian countryside. They observe the colorful characters they encounter -- from an innkeeper whose wife has been murdered to a crippled musical prodigy kept in a cage -- coping with physical misery, madness, and the brutality of the austere landscape. The parade of human grotesques culminates in a hundred-page monologue by an eccentric, paranoid prince, a relentlessly flowing cascade of words that is classic Bernhard."-- Publisher description.

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