Undergångaren by Thomas Bernhard
An unnamed narrator recalls studying piano at the Mozarteum alongside two others, including the dazzling Glenn Gould, and traces how one friend’s obsessive identification with Gould’s supreme artistry and the narrator’s own mingled admiration and resentment lead to that friend’s psychological collapse and ruin; in a compact, bitterly repetitive monologue the narrator probes envy, failure, guilt and the destructive demands of genius on friendship and the self.
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- Published
- 1983
- Nationality
- Austrian
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- Original Language
- German
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- Der Untergeher
- The Loser
- Undergångaren
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