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  • Paperback: 106 pages
  • Publisher: Chicago University Press; New edition edition (1 Feb 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0226043924
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226043920
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.5 x 0.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 827,294 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Crazier than thou, 4 April 2009
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This is a magnificent book by Thomas Bernhard which is probably the best one to start with from his work. When it opens with two sick men crawling through the hospital to meet up for a chat you don't know whether to giggle or feel sorry for them. Paul Wittgenstein is the messed up product of a rich industrial family while Bernhard, the narrator, is a lung-diseased whinger who isn't sure if he likes anyone. The book makes so many fascinating observations about life and people that it's hard to convey the emerging quality. For the two men in the book illness has essentially stopped their lives. As they look out at the mundane and petty concerns of the normal world, they discover their own madnesses and freedoms. At times I almost felt there was a 'click your heels together three times and you can go home' quality to this, as if both of the characters are choosing to live in this crazy way just for the hell of it. If you compare it to George Orwell's 'Down and out in Paris and London' you realise that this is a book about the inner world of Bernhard, and not really about what its like to be ill. Worth reading for its many curious effects and for the way it makes normal life seem so boring, and ordinary human concerns so empty.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful! Entropy throbs again., 29 Mar 2000
Bernhard always grabs me into a trancelike state of reading. Something about those long sentences, the repetitive, rythmical commentary on a process of increasing decay, just seems to captivate me. In this particular book, he is unusually concise and to the point, if that is possible with Bernhard. For Bernhard is a whiner on the grand scale, like Celine, but without Celine's particular madness. Bernhard has of course his own. He also has great insight, both about himself and others; he is unusually honest and completely free of sentimentality. He can be poignant, but without schmalz. Bodil Malmsten, a Swedish poet held in high regard, once remarked in an interview, that she found Bernhard's writing to be a sexual turn-on. I've sometimes tried to imagine that but I haven't made up my mind yet. Perhaps that would demand more maturity on the behalf of the reader, or possibly less...
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4.0 out of 5 stars A probing and compassionate book, 6 Nov 1998
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Thomas Bernhard is no lover of humanity, but this is a very compassionate book. It is a sympathetic portrait of Paul Wittgenstein as well as of Bernhard himself. Bernhard comes across as rather crotchety, rather irritating, but quite stubborn in getting his point across. His ability to repeat himself - which intially leaves the reader wondering - is ultimately hilarious and endearing. This book is poignant, touching and eventually, sad.
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