Woodcutters (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Bernhard
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1980’s, in retrospect, the 1950’s
- Setting: Vienna, Austria
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Suicide, Authors or writers, 1980’s, Parties, Vienna, Dinners or dining
- Locales: Vienna, Austria
Characters Discussed
The narrator, a writer who has recently returned to Vienna after twenty-five years in London. He is disgusted with himself for having accepted an invitation from the Auersbergers, met by chance in the street and well known to him in the 1950’s. He had hoped to make a clean break with his artistic past, which drove him to a nervous breakdown. He observes his fellow guests, many of whom he already had seen at the funeral of a suicide, Joana, that afternoon, while they were all waiting for the guest of honor, a famous actor. On leaving the Mozarteum in the...
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