For a long time I’ve been wanting to read W. G. Sebald, thoroughly, like I’m currently reading the work of Virginia Woolf. Actually I planned Sebald to be my next project – in a year or so – . BUT … it seems I’m no longer the captain of this ship – Sebald won’t wait!…
Tag: thomas bernhard
A recommendation:
Today I read this great conversation between David Winters and Anthony Brown – – I want to say that I read for the style, but I don’t mean ’style’ in the ’superficial’ sense … In the work of the writers I most admire, a style is always also a stance. That is, for them, a way of arranging words…
Hotel Waldhaus by Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard’s The Voice Imitator is one of his most darkly comic works. The book gives us a series of parable-like anecdotes; stories that depicts the absurdity of modern life. Hotel Waldhaus We had no luck with the weather and the guests at our table were repellent in every respect. They even spoiled Nietzsche for…
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