bernhard thomas old masters a comedy
Bernhard Thomas Old Masters. A Comedy
Old Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, artists, the weather, even the state of public lavatories. His friend Atzbacher has been summoned to meet him, and through his eyes we learn more about Reger - the tragic death of his wife, his thoughts of suicide and, eventually, the true purpose of their appointment. At once pessimistic and exuberant, rancorous and hilarious, Old Masters is a richly satirical portrait of culture, genius, nationhood, class, the value of art and the pretensions of humanity.
2607 Руб.
Swarup Vikas Slumdog Millionaire
A former tiffinboy from Mumbai, Ram Mohammad Thomas, has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in a prison cell on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a kid from the slums know who Shakespeare was unless he has been pulling a fast one? In the order of the questions on the show, Ram tells us which amazing adventures in his street-kid life taught him the answers. From orphanages to brothels, gangsters to beggar-masters, and into the homes of Bollywood's rich and famous, "Slumdog Millionaire" is brimming with the chaotic comedy, heart-stopping tragedy, and tear-inducing joyfulness of modern India.
1979 Руб.
Bernhard Thomas Wittgenstein’s Nephew. A Friendship
It is 1967. Two men lie bedridden in separate wings of a Viennese hospital. The narrator, Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his periodic bouts of madness. As their friendship quickens, these two eccentric men discover in each other an antidote to their feelings of despair on the unexpected strength of what they share – a spiritual symmetry forged by their love of music, black humour, disgust for bourgeois Vienna, and fear of mortality. A restless blend of fiction and memoir, Wittgenstein’s Nephew is not only a haunting meditation on the artist’s struggle to maintain a foothold on reality, but an impassioned eulogy to a real-life friendship – newly illuminated by Ben Lerner’s afterword.
2892 Руб.
Bernhard Thomas Correction
Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers of pure thought. We witness the gradual breakdown of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct and refine his perceptions until the only logical conclusion is the negation of his own soul.
2300 Руб.
Bernhard Thomas Woodcutters
An unnamed writer arrives at an 'artistic dinner' hosted by a composer and his society wife: a couple he once admired, but has now come to detest. They have been brought together by their friend Joana's suicide, but the guest of honour, a famous actor from the Burgtheatre, is late. As the guests await his arrival, little do they know that they are being subjected to the narrator's merciless scrutiny from his wing-backed throne, the targets of a tirade of epic, frenzied proportions. When the star actor finally arrives, he ushers in an explosive end to the evening that is impossible to see coming. Originally banned in Thomas Bernhard's homeland, Woodcutters brutally exposes the hollow pretentiousness of the Austrian bourgeoisie in an unforgettable firework display of humour and horror - newly illuminated by Anne Enright's afterword.
2852 Руб.
Bernhard Thomas Concrete
Instead of the book he is meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph’s sister, whose help he invites then reviles; his ‘really marvellous’ house which he hates; the suspicious illness he carefully nurses; his ten-year-long attempt to write the perfect opening sentence; and his escape to the island of Majorca, which turns out to be the site of someone else’s very real horror story, and ultimately brings him no release from himself. Concrete is Thomas Bernhard at his very finest: a bleakly hilarious insight into procrastination and failure that scratches the murky depths of our souls.
2024 Руб.
Bernhard Thomas Die Kalte
Ein Schwanken zwischen Anpassung und Auflehnung. Mit der Einweisung in die Lungenheilstatte Grafenhof endet der dritte Teil von Thomas Bernhards Jugenderinnerungen, und ein neues Kapitel in der Leidensgeschichte des Achtzehnjahrigen beginnt. Ein Schatten auf seiner Lunge verbannt ihn in die isolierte Welt des Sanatoriums, aus der es so leicht kein Entrinnen gibt. Arzten, Pflegepersonal und Mitpatienten ausgeliefert, toben in ihm die widerspruchlichsten Gefuhle. Mit nichts als Hoffnungslosigkeit konfrontiert, schwankt er immer wieder zwischen absoluter Anpassung und Auflehnung.
3418 Руб.
Bernhard Thomas The Loser
Mid-century Austria. Three aspiring concert pianists – Wertheimer, Glenn Gould, and the narrator – have dedicated their lives to achieving the status of a virtuoso. But one day, two of them overhear Gould playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and his incomparable genius instantly destroys them both. They are forced to abandon their musical ambitions: Wertheimer, over a tortured process of disintegration that sees him becoming obsessed with both writing and his own sister, with whom he has a quasi-incestuous relationship culminating in death; and the narrator, instantly, retreating into obscurity to write a book that he periodically destroys and restarts. Written as a monologue in one remarkable unbroken paragraph, Thomas Bernhard’s dazzling meditation on failure, genius, and fame is a radical new reading experience: musical, paralysing, raging, and inimitable.
2852 Руб.
Thomas Dylan Collected Stories
This unique edition presents the complete span of Thomas' short stories, from his urgent hallucinatory visions of the dark forces beneath the surface of Welsh life to the inimitable comedy of his later autobiographical writings. With Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and Adventures in the Skin Trade, Thomas found a new voice for his irreverent memories of lust and bravado in south-west Wales and London, leading to a sequence of classic evocations of childhood magic and the follies of adult life.
2430 Руб.
Виниловая пластинка MacLeod, Doug; Musselwhite, Charlie, Come To Find (Analogue) (0753088027475)
Лицензионное издание, выпущенное на виниле. Содержание: Bring It On Home, Louis, Mystery Woman, Come To Find, Old Virginia Stomp, Masters Plan, Aint No Grave, Lost Something This Morning, Rollin & Tumblin, Any Port In A Storm, When I Left Missouri
11340 Руб.
Виниловая пластинка MacLeod, Doug; Musselwhite, Charlie, Come To Find (Analogue) (0753088027475)
Лицензионное издание, выпущенное на виниле. Содержание: Bring It On Home, Louis, Mystery Woman, Come To Find, Old Virginia Stomp, Masters Plan, Aint No Grave, Lost Something This Morning, Rollin & Tumblin, Any Port In A Storm, When I Left Missouri
12534 Руб.
Parks T. Thomas and Mary: A Love Story
Thomas and Mary have been married for thirty years. They have two children, a dog, a house in the suburbs. But after years of drifting apart, things – finally – come to a head. In this love story in reverse, Tim Parks recounts what happens when youthful devotion has long given way to dog walking, separate bed times, and tensions over who left the fridge door open. Lurching from comedy to tragedy, via dependence, cold re-examination, tenderness and betrayal, Thomas and Mary is a fiercely intimate chronicle of a marriage – capturing the offshoots of pain sent through an entire family, when the couple at its heart decide it’s all over. .
498 Руб.
Parks T. Thomas and Mary: A Love Story
Thomas and Mary have been married for thirty years. They have two children, a dog, a house in the suburbs. But after years of drifting apart, things – finally – come to a head. In this love story in reverse, Tim Parks recounts what happens when youthful devotion has long given way to dog walking, separate bed times, and tensions over who left the fridge door open. Lurching from comedy to tragedy, via dependence, cold re-examination, tenderness and betrayal, Thomas and Mary is a fiercely intimate chronicle of a marriage – capturing the offshoots of pain sent through an entire family, when the couple at its heart decide it’s all over. .
498 Руб.
Meehan Thomas Annie
The story of Annie - everyone's favourite orphan - with an introduction by writer, actor and comedian Miranda Hart. It's 1933 and for as long as she can remember, 11 year old Annie has believed that her mother and father would come back to her New York City orphanage to get her. But mean Miss Hannigan the headmistress is making Annie's life a misery. So she runs away to find her parents - and along the way she rescues a friendly dog, meets millionaire Oliver Warbucks, and has a many scary and exciting adventures. Will kind-hearted Annie find a way to escape her hard-knock life? The author Thomas Meehan is the playwright of the original Broadway play and he has expanded the story of the plucky little orphan in this classic American tale. Thomas Meehan was born in New York in 1929. He worked as a journalist for the New Yorker magazine and wrote comedy sketches for the satirical TV show, 'That Was the Week That Was'. He received a Tony Award for Annie in 1977, for The Producers in 2001 and in 2003 for the musical Hairspray. He currently lives in New York city and in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
2085 Руб.
Brockman Robin Classic Ghost Stories
There's nothing like a good ghost story to give you a frisson of fear on a dark winter's night. Gathered in this haunting collection are twenty-seven of the very best of their genre by British and American masters. These are classic tales from the heyday of ghost fiction, when the great names of literature contributed to the genre as a matter of course -authors such as Ambrose Bierce (The Moonlit Road),Wilkie Collins (Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman),Conan Doyle (The Captain of the Pole-star), Charles Dickens (The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton), Mrs Gaskell (The Old Nurse's Story), Thomas Hardy (The Withered Arm), Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Hollow of the Three Hills), O. Henry (The Furnished Room), Jerome K.Jerome (The Haunted Mill), de Maupassant (A Ghost),Edgar Allan Poe (The Oval Portrait), Robert Louis Stevenson (The Body Snatcher), Thackeray (The Devil's Wage) and Oscar Wilde (The Canterville Ghost).
1133 Руб.
Gardam Jane The Stories
Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her longer fiction. Passion and longing, metamorphosis and enchantment are Gardam's themes, and like a magician she plucks them from the quietest of corners: from Wimbledon gardens and cold churches, from London buses and industrial backstreets. A mother watching her children on the beach dreams of a long-lost lover, an abandoned army wife sees a ghost at a moorland gate, a translator adrift in Geneva is haunted by the unspeakable manifestation of her own fears, and a colonial servant wreaks a delicious revenge on her monstrous masters. Gardam's cast is wide and wonderful, saints and mystics, trollops and curmudgeons, yearning mothers and lost children, beloved figures such as Old Filth and less familiar - but equally unforgettable - characters like Signor Settimo, the sad-eyed provincial photographer marooned in Shipley or Florrie Ironside, the ferocious matron he seduces. With a mischievous ear for dialogue, a glittering eye for detail and a capacious understanding of the vagaries of the human heart, Jane Gardam's stories will captivate, sadden and delight.
2670 Руб.