- Fiction, Musicologists, Fiction, humorous, general, Vienna (austria), fiction
The book is set in Vienna on one day around the year of its publication, 1985. (p. 193) Reger is an 82-year-old music critic who writes pieces for The Times. For over thirty years he has sat on the same bench in front of Tintoretto's White-bearded Man in the Bordone Room of the Kunsthistorisches Museum for four or five hours of the morning of every second day.
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Contemplative, intimate, prestige and character-led.
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Thomas Bernhard
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 205
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press, Suhrkamp Verlag, Suhrkamp
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780226043913
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