by Thomas Bernhard · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420632537
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Published in 1987, 'Old Masters' is a comedy by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. The plot follows Reger, a musicologist and music critic, who for 36 years has visited the Bordone Hall of the Kunsthistorisches Museum to meditate in front of Tintoretto's painting 'The Man with the White Beard'. The novel explores themes such as originality, tradition, and criticism of art and culture.
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.
