The point, as Thomas Bernhard says about halfway through this novel, is to simply sit down and write what you have to say. The inhabitants of the lime works, a older man, Konrad, with a gift for natural sciences, and his incapacitated wife, are a case study in routine, obsession, and missed opportunities. Konrad's magnum opus, The Sense of Hearing, ultimately exists only in his mind. What a shame that is, Bernhard says, inviting the reader to look at himself through Konrad's experience.
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