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'Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction'George SteinerOld Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men.For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, artists, the weather, even the state of public lavatories. His friend Atzbacher has been summoned to meet him, and through his eyes we learn more about Reger - the tragic death of his wife, his thoughts of suicide and, eventually, the true purpose of their appointment. At once pessimistic and exuberant, rancorous and hilarious, Old Masters is a richly satirical portrait of culture, genius, nationhood, class, the value of art and the pretensions of humanity.

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One night in the middle of winter, as deep snow covers the mountains and forests, a doctor is crossing the ridge in Austria from Traich to Föding to see a patient. He stumbles over a body in the darkness and fears it is a corpse. But it’s not a corpse at all. In fact, it’s wooden-legged Victor Halfwit, collapsed, but still very much alive. So begins this simultaneously absurd and tragic tale by celebrated Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard. Combining the darkly comic voice and vision of Bernhard with the lush and beautiful collages of Indian designer Sunandini Banerjee, Victor Halfwit is a unique and collectible artist’s book. Illustrated in color throughout, this edition imaginatively presents Bernhard’s fable in a distinctive and unconventional style. It is the perfect gift book that will be cherished by fans of Bernhard’s other works and will inspire new interest among visual artists.

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LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY ANNE ENRIGHT, AUTHOR OF THE ACTRESS'If you haven't read Bernhard, you will not know of the most radical advance in fiction since Joyce ... My advice: dive in.' Lucy Ellmann'I absolutely love Bernhard: he is one of the darkest and funniest writers ... A must read for everybody.' Karl Ove KnausgaardAn unnamed writer arrives at an 'artistic dinner' hosted by a composer and his society wife: a couple he once admired, but has now come to detest. They have been brought together by their friend Joana's suicide, but the guest of honour, a famous actor from the Burgtheatre, is late. As the guests await his arrival, little do they know that they are being subjected to the narrator's merciless scrutiny from his wing-backed throne, the targets of a tirade of epic, frenzied proportions. When the star actor finally arrives, he ushers in an explosive end to the evening that is impossible to see coming. 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 - newly illuminated by Anne Enright's afterword.

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Kernanliegen dieses Werkes ist es, Rechtsanwender bei einer kohärenten Anwendung des am 7. November 2020 in Kraft getretenen medienrechtlichen Diskriminierungsverbots in § 94 des Medienstaatsvertrags innerhalb der Gesamtrechtsordnung zu unterstützen. Hierzu wird das Verhältnis zwischen § 94 Medienstaatsvertrag zu den Vorschriften der kartellrechtlichen Missbrauchskontrolle des deutschen und europäischen Rechts untersucht. Im Zentrum der Betrachtung steht die Frage, ob und inwieweit zwischen diesen Regelungen Potenziale für Normkonflikte oder aber für gegenseitige Ergänzungen bei der Erreichung ihrer Regelungsziele bestehen. Nach einer einleitenden Vorstellung der Begrifflichkeiten „Medienintermediäre und Auffindbarkeitsdiskriminierungen“ sowie ihrer publizistischen Relevanz als Regelungsgegenstand des § 94 Medienstaatsvertrag, werden hierzu die rechtlich-inhaltlichen Vorgaben des medienrechtlichen Diskriminierungsverbots und des kartellrechtlichen Missbrauchsregimes vergleichend gegenübergestellt, konkrete Ergänzungs- und Konfliktpotenziale identifiziert und schließlich ein Vorschlag für eine konfliktfreie Anwendung und Auslegung des § 94 Medienstaatsvertrag entwickelt.

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