Ebook > Human Sciences > Music > Thomas Bernhard: Loser (ePUB)

Thomas Bernhard
Loser

Support

Cover of Thomas Bernhard: Loser (ePUB)

Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been hailed by Gabriel Josipovici as 'Austria's finest postwar writer' and by George Steiner as 'one of the masters of contemporary European fiction.' Faber Finds is proud to reissue a selection of four of Bernhard's finest novels. The Loser centres on a fictional relationship between piano virtuoso Glenn Gould and two of his fellow students who feel compelled to renounce their musical ambitions in the face of Gould's incomparable genius. One commits suicide, while the other – the obsessive, witty, and self-mocking narrator – has retreated into obscurity. Written as a monologue in one remarkable unbroken paragraph, The Loser is a brilliant meditation on success, failure, genius, and fame.

€9.97

Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780571289219 ● Translator Jack Dawson ● Publisher Faber & Faber ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2630346 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

Thomas Bernhard

30,619 Ebooks in this category

Cover of Taichi Akutsu: Applying Flow Theory to Strings Education in P-12 and Community Schools: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Taichi Akutsu: Applying Flow Theory to Strings Education in P-12 and Community Schools: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Strings teaching and learning has tended to emphasize performance rather than the quality of experience for the children. School instruction has become rigid and focused on technical accuracy. …

Cover of Dwight E. Brooks: Earth, Wind & Fire's That's the Way of the World

Dwight E. Brooks: Earth, Wind & Fire’s That’s the Way of the World

Dwight E. Brooks deep dives into Earth, Wind & Fire’s That’s The Way of the World. Alongside interview material from members Phillip Bailey and Verdine White, he analyses how this album shattered …

Cover of Professor or Dr. Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær: The Sounds of Spectators at Football

Professor or Dr. Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær: The Sounds of Spectators at Football

The sounds of spectators at football (soccer) are often highlighted – by spectators, tourists, commentators, journalists, scholars, media producers, etc. – as crucial for the experience of football. …

Cover of Jamie C. Kassler: The Beginnings of the Modern Philosophy of Music in England

Jamie C. Kassler: The Beginnings of the Modern Philosophy of Music in England

In 1677 a slim quarto volume was published anonymously as A Philosophical Essay of Musick. Written by Francis North (1637-85), chief justice of the Common Pleas, the Essay is in the form of a legal …

Cover of Carl Van Vechten: Music of Spain

Carl Van Vechten: Music of Spain

First published in 1920, The Music of Spain deals with historical periods, schools and style and appears to embrace everything related to music provided it affects or is affected by Spain in some …

Cover of Christopher Kimbell: Tradition, Community, and Nationhood in Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Christopher Kimbell: Tradition, Community, and Nationhood in Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Since its premiere in 1868, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg has defied repeated upheavals in the cultural-political landscape of German statehood to retain its unofficial status as the German …

Cover of Antoine (MINES-ParisTech, France) Hennion & Christophe (Universite de Liege, Belgium) Levaux: Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies

Antoine (MINES-ParisTech, France) Hennion & Christophe (Universite de Liege, Belgium) Levaux: Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies

This volume seeks to offer a new approach to the study of music through the lens of recent works in science and technology studies (STS), which propose that facts are neither absolute truths, nor com …

Cover of Eva (University of Glasgow, UK) Moreda Rodriguez & Elodie A. (University of Newcastle, UK) Roy: Phonographic Encounters

Eva (University of Glasgow, UK) Moreda Rodriguez & Elodie A. (University of Newcastle, UK) Roy: Phonographic Encounters

This cross-disciplinary volume illuminates the history of early phonography from a transnational perspective, recovering the myriad sites, knowledge practices, identities and discourses which dynamic …

Cover of Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason: House of Music

Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason: House of Music

Meet the most musically gifted family in the world ‘I was entranced… Beautifully written and hugely enjoyable.’ Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other Seven brothers and si …

Cover of Richard Alexander Streatfield: Revival: Modern Music and Musicians (1906)

Richard Alexander Streatfield: Revival: Modern Music and Musicians (1906)

A plethora of biographical accounts of some of the contemporary composers and musicians at the turn of the twentieth …