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Woodcutters (German title: Holzfällen) is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1984. A roman à clef, its subject is the theatre and it forms the second part of a trilogy, between The Loser (1983) and Old Masters (1985) which deal with music and painting respectively.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Novel "Woodcutters" takes place during one evening through so-called artistic dinner given by a couple of narrator’s former friends. A pretext for the dinner is a visit of known actor, but the real reason is a suicidal death of their mutual friend, unfulfilled artist Joana.
Originally banned in Thomas Bernhard's homeland, Woodcutters brutally exposes the hollow pretentiousness of the Austrian bourgeoisie in an unforgettable firework display of humour and horror....
10 de ago. de 2010 · Thomas Bernhard. National Geographic Books, Aug 10, 2010 - Fiction - 192 pages. Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg” ( The New York Times Book Review ),...
10 de ago. de 2010 · Book Description. Editorial Reviews. Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg” (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author’s homeland. A searing portrayal of Vienna’s bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer ...
About Woodcutters. Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg” (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author’s homeland.
But a Thomas Bernhard novel is not about the events it catalogues, most of which could always be adequately described in a dozen or so lines as I try to do above. I think the more adequate description of any Bernhard novel is that there is a narrator, sometimes named, often not, but who is always a rather thinly described Thomas Bernhard.
