by Patrick Grainville · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070704187
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«Le Naufragé» is the novel by Thomas Bernhard, published by Gallimard in paperback (173 pages, in French).
Three young pianists —Glenn Gould, the narrator and Wertheimer— meet at the Mozarteum in Salzburg during a course by Horowitz. Gould, an overwhelming talent, steers the other two away from a virtuoso career. The narrator gives up the piano and devotes himself to an endless essay on Gould; Wertheimer, by contrast, embarks on a path of failure that will mark his life.
The French edition, translated from German by Bernard Kreiss, appeared in 1986 in Gallimard's «Du monde entier» collection.
For readers interested in twentieth-century European fiction and in stories about music, genius and rivalry between artists.
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.
