Old Masters (Penguin Modern Classics)
ISBN:
9780141192710 (0141192712)
Publish date: May 6th 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Read about half of this - it is a self-parody (as the subtitle suggests: "a comedy"), and so is less compelling. There are some fascinating passages, such as the passage on life (and art) as fragment (rather than as whole), which can serve as a set-piece for 'modernism'.Still, not my favorite Bernha...
In which we get the rambling thoughts of Reger, an 82-year-old music critic, whose irascibility is only matched by his erudition, as he sits in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum before Tintoretto's 'Portrait of a White Bearded Man'. Reger hates almost everything but reserves great passion for those ...
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