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A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. The cold increases with the clarity, said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a major literary prize in 1965. That clarity was the postwar realization that the West's last remaining cultural reference points were being swept away by the ever-greater commodification of humankind. Collecting five stylistically transitional tales by Bernhard, all of which take place in sites of extreme cold, this volume extends that bleak vision of the master Austrian storyteller. In Ungenach, the reluctant heir of an enormous estate chooses to give away his legacy to an assortment of oddballs as he discovers the past of his older brother, who was murdered during a career in futile colonialist philanthropy. In The Weatherproof Cape, a lawyer tries to maintain a sense of familial solidarity with a now-dead client with the help of an unremarkable piece of clothing. Midland in Stilfs ca

The Rest Is Slander

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      Publisher Seagull Books
      Published 10 August 2024
      ISBN-13 9781803094496
      978-1803094496
      ISBN-10 1803094494
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      Book Synopsis
      A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. The cold increases with the clarity, said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a major literary prize in 1965. That clarity was the postwar realization that the West's last remaining cultural reference points were being swept away by the ever-greater commodification of humankind. Collecting five stylistically transitional tales by Bernhard, all of which take place in sites of extreme cold, this volume extends that bleak vision of the master Austrian storyteller. In Ungenach, the reluctant heir of an enormous estate chooses to give away his legacy to an assortment of oddballs as he discovers the past of his older brother, who was murdered during a career in futile colonialist philanthropy. In The Weatherproof Cape, a lawyer tries to maintain a sense of familial solidarity with a now-dead client with the help of an unremarkable piece of clothing. Midland in Stilfs ca

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