Re: Thomas Bernhard
I read the Looser(in French le Naufargé is closest to the idea in the book,in germain?help).The plot is promising,three piano virtuaso spend weeks with a famous teacher near salsbourg.One of them is Glen gould,the two others will give up music,crushed by the enormity of genius.
It's full of orginal ideas and atmospheres but the style of unbearable.The hammering of repetitions,up to 10 times in a page the sentence "thought i" or "he said,thought i".It's like having a fascinating story told by a madman or a guy with a stammer.
Each time i putted the book down having enough,a new turn would bring me back to the story.Like when Gould we imagine as weakling on his piano,get out of the house,grab an ax and cut a tree that bothered him to play.He trun out to be more on the athletic side.
Nothing is obvious and i loved that.
Still the style is a pure pain in the rear.(if i may)
But deffenetly Berhnard is heavyweight,and Thomas is such a nice name.
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