FrostKnopf, 2006 - 341 Visceral, raw, singular, and distinctive, "Frost" is the story of a friendship between a young man at the beginning of his medical career and a painter who is entering his final days. A writer of world stature, Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze into the human condition. "Frost" follows an unnamed young Austrian who accepts an unusual assignment. Rather than continue with his medical studies, he travels to a bleak mining town in the back of beyond, in order to clinically observe the aged painter, Strauch, who happens to be the brother of this young man's surgical mentor. The catch is this: Strauch must not know the young man's true occupation or the reason for his arrival. Posing as a promising law student with a love of Henry James, the young man befriends the mad artist and is caught up among an equally extraordinary cast of local characters, from his resentful landlady to the town's mining engineers. This debut novel by Thomas Bernhard, which came out in German in 1963 and is now being published in English for the first time, marks the beginning of what was one of the twentieth century's most powerful, provocative literary careers. |
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Thomas Bernhard. names , and some of them I called out , and it was a torment when those I called emerged from the mass of the patients and told me their medical histories , really only by a variety of hideous facial expressions ; behind ...
Thomas Bernhard. names , and some of them I called out , and it was a torment when those I called emerged from the mass of the patients and told me their medical histories , really only by a variety of hideous facial expressions ; behind ...
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... called upon to do so by the land- lady , and because the painter seemed to have no objection , our underpants as well . The landlady should sew a patch over the missing material in his sleeve , and make it good , said the painter . As ...
... called upon to do so by the land- lady , and because the painter seemed to have no objection , our underpants as well . The landlady should sew a patch over the missing material in his sleeve , and make it good , said the painter . As ...
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... called out , or knocked for help . If only the cold hadn't been so intense , coming through the floorboards , " said the painter , " there was an intense cold coming through the floorboards . I freeze , because my head takes away all ...
... called out , or knocked for help . If only the cold hadn't been so intense , coming through the floorboards , " said the painter , " there was an intense cold coming through the floorboards . I freeze , because my head takes away all ...
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