Old Masters (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Bernhard
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Mid-1980’s
- Setting: The Kunsthistorisches (Art History) Museum, Vienna, Austria
- Principal Characters: Reger, Atzbacher, Irrsigler
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Music or musicians, Art or artists, 1980’s, Death or dying, Catholics or Catholic Church, Nazism or Nazis, Austria or Austrians, Morality or morals
- Locales: Vienna, Austria
At the time of his death, Thomas Bernhard’s worldwide reputation placed him among Austria’s foremost playwrights and novelists, but his relationship with his own country was a stormy and ambivalent one. His writing won him many awards in his native country, which he never thought of leaving, but his will stipulated that his plays not be produced or his novels reissued in Austria for the duration of copyright. In much of his work, he subjects his native land to abuse so relentlessly vituperative that it becomes impossible to know how seriously he meant it, and Old Masters is...
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