Gargoyles

A Novel

Thomas Bernhard, Professor Richard Winston, Clara Winston

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Random US
17 October 2006

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Vintage International

The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated

and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary

prizes in Germany. Gargoyles, one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal

study of the nature of humanity.

One morning a doctor and his son set out on daily

rounds through the grim mountainous Austrian countryside. They observe the colorful

characters they encounter-from an innkeeper whose wife has been murdered to a

crippled musical prodigy kept in a cage-coping with physical misery, madness,

and the brutality of the austere landscape. The parade of human grotesques culminates

in a hundred-page monologue by an eccentric, paranoid prince, a relentlessly flowing

cascade of words that is classic Bernhard.

By: Thomas Bernhard
Translated by: Professor Richard Winston, Clara Winston
Imprint: Random US
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 244g
ISBN: 9781400077557
ISBN 10: 1400077559
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 17 October 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Gargoyles: A Novel

Here is a novelist with uncommon talents of a sort possessed by Kafka, Musil, and Beckett. --Saturday Review Extraordinary . . . a virtuoso verbal performance. --Book World The feeling grows that Thomas Bernhard is the most original, concentrated novelist writing in German. His connections...with the great constellation of Kafka, Musil, and Broch become ever clearer. --George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement