Cutting Timber: An Irritation
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099762607 (0099762609)
Publish date: 1993
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 148
Edition language: English
An excellent Bernhard... clearer and mellower... there is even a positive character in it (!!). Really 4.5 stars.... But that 'positiveness' does take away just a smidgen... ;-)
monomaniacal curmudgeon aka unreliable narrator whom I think doth protest too much spews hate from a wing chair.lots of words, no point. also no chapter breaks, no dialogue, no plot, no relief in sight. mind-numbingly repetitive - the perfect before-bed soporofic.this is highly rated and lauded by...
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Hätte er nur nicht die Auersbergers getroffen. Und dann die geistige Umnachtung, als er ihre Einladung zu einem “künstlerischen Abendessen” annahm geschweige denn, dass er auch noch hinging…20 Jahre lang hatte er jeden Kontakt mit der künstlerischen Szene, in der er damals zu Hause war, gemieden. We...
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