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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... there's any peace . Before that , there's a lot of merriment and squalor and the great futility of everything . Ninth Day " Did you hear the drunks ? Did you hear them after mid- night ? " he said . " I lay awake all night . Walked up ...
... there's any peace . Before that , there's a lot of merriment and squalor and the great futility of everything . Ninth Day " Did you hear the drunks ? Did you hear them after mid- night ? " he said . " I lay awake all night . Walked up ...
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... There's almost no light , " he says , and the operation gets under way . And continues perhaps until morning , and there's no time to go to the staff room for breakfast . A head needs to be raised a little , a leg wants to be reset , a ...
... There's almost no light , " he says , and the operation gets under way . And continues perhaps until morning , and there's no time to go to the staff room for breakfast . A head needs to be raised a little , a leg wants to be reset , a ...
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... there's any point in going to , because they sell newspapers there . If any place has any point to it , if there's any point to anything . Is there any point ? " Then we're standing in front of the cobbler's window , and looking in ...
... there's any point in going to , because they sell newspapers there . If any place has any point to it , if there's any point to anything . Is there any point ? " Then we're standing in front of the cobbler's window , and looking in ...
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