The narrator, an austrian writer and former pianist from a welltodo family, suffering from pulmonary disease. Novelist, poet, and playwright thomas bernhard is one of the great germanlanguage writers of the latter half of the 20th century. As the novel begins, the narrator has just attended the funeral of. Concrete beton, 1982 is a novel by austrian writer thomas bernhard like many of bernhards books, it is written in the form of a monologueessentially a rant lasting for 150 pages with no chapter breaks or even separate paragraphsby rudolf, a viennese amateur musicologist and convalescent. Almost completely isolated from the world, rudolf, who suffers from sarcoidosis, has spent his. Wertheimer is the losera nickname given him by gouldcommemorated in the title to the book. Putting on a pair of pants is exhausting putting on shakespeare is exhausting in exactly the same way. Maybe youve seen them, stranded in shoals of the fiction section in some outoftheway used bookstore.
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