Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Concrete
Thomas Bernhard's extravagant misanthropy, gift for aphorism, and luxuriant pessimism come into bloom in this 1982 novel about a musicologist whose attempt to write the definitive work on Mendelssohn becomes this biographical screed instead. It is not without its flashes of humanity and tenderness; some light finds its way through cracks in the concrete.
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