Description
In this searing debut, Thomas Bernhard plunges into the fractured psyche of a young medical student tasked with caring for a reclusive, dying painter. As the student grapples with the artist's descent into madness and isolation, he finds himself increasingly drawn into the painter's obsessive world. The novel masterfully explores themes of art, mortality, and the suffocating grip of obsession, all rendered in Bernhard's signature, relentless prose. It is a profound and unsettling examination of the human condition, where the boundaries between sanity and delusion blur.
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paperback
Suhrkamp
Published Jan 1, 2003
359 pages
ISBN: 3518415018
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First Published
1963
Language
deu
Translation
From: deu
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