Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
Woodcutters is a darkly humorous critique of Vienna's artistic elite. The story takes place over the course of a single evening, as the narrator attends a dinner party in honor of a recently successful actor. As the evening progresses, he reflects on the pretentiousness and hypocrisy of the guests, the mediocrity of their artistic achievements, and the tragic suicide of his former lover. The novel is a scathing indictment of the vanity and self-delusion of the artistic community.
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- Published
- 1984
- Nationality
- Austrian
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 181
- Original Language
- German
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- Alternate Titles
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- Cutting Timber
- Holzfällen. Eine Erregung
- Skogshuggning
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- 100 Books From The Last 100 Years (Der SPIEGEL)
- 100 German Must-Reads (Deutsche Welle)
- Der Kanon (The Canon) (Der Kanon)
- Harold Bloom's The Western Canon (The Western Canon (Book) by Harold Bloom)
- Novels that Changed The World (Radio France)
- The 100 Best Novels Of All Time (Runners-Up) (The Guardian)
- Zeit Literaturkanon (https://www.librarything.com/award/335/ZEIT-Literaturkanon)