by Thomas Bernhard · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420429755
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The Loser is a novel by Austrian author Thomas Bernhard, published in 1983. The story narrates the encounter of a writer with two virtuous musicians, Glenn Gould and Wertheimer, and explores themes such as genius, failure, and obsession. The novel is a reflection on the human condition and the pursuit of perfection in art.
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive prose style often featuring multiple perspectives on characters and events, idiosyncratic vocabulary and punctuation, and long monologues by protagonists on the verge of insanity.
