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Ausloschungby T. BernhardISBN 351802597X (3-518-02597-X)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp Pub Ny
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Beware of Pityby Stefan Zweig, Trevor Blewitt, Joan AcocellaISBN 1590172000 (1-59017-200-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beware of Pity'Book summary:In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible dangers of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he asked her to dance - his compensatory afternoon calls relieve his guilt but give her a dangerous glimmer of hope. Stefan Zweig's only novel is a devastatingly unindulgent realization of the torment of the betrayal of both honor and love, realized against the background of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 into a wealthy Viennese Jewish family. He studied at the Universities of Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig traveled widely, living in Salzburg, London and New York before settling in Brazil where he and his wife were found dead in 1942.
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TP $14.00, 1-901285-00-6 CUSACasanova - A Study in Self-Portraiture
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- Beware of Pity: ISBN 190128543X (1-901285-43-X)
Softcover, Pushkin Pr Ltd - Beware of Pity: ISBN 1901285499 (1-901285-49-9)
Softcover, Pushkin Pr Ltd - Beware of Pity: ISBN 0452255120 (0-452-25512-0)
Softcover, New American Library - Beware of Pity: ISBN 0810113309 (0-8101-1330-9)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr - Beware of Pity: ISBN 0517546736 (0-517-54673-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Beware of Pity: ISBN 1590172000 (1-59017-200-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Beware of Pity: ISBN 190128543X (1-901285-43-X)
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Concreteby Thomas Bernhard, Thomas BerhardISBN 0226043983 (0-226-04398-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Concrete'Book summary:Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of procrastination, failure, and despair, a dark and grotesquely funny story of small woes writ large and profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction.[via]
"Certain booksfewassert literary importance instantly, profoundly. This new novel by the internationally praised but not widely known Austrian writer is one of thosea book of mysterious dark beauty . . . . [It] is overwhelming; one wants to read it again, immediately, to re-experience its intricate innovations, not to let go of this masterful work."John Rechy, Los Angeles Times
"Rudolph is not obstructed by some malfunctions in part of his beinghis being itself is a knot. And as Bernhard's narrative proceeds, we begin to register the dimensions of his crisis, its self-consuming circularity . . . . Where rage of this intensity is directed outward, we often find the sociopath; where inward, the suicide. Where it breaks out laterally, onto the page, we sometimes find a most unsettling artistic vision."Sven Birkerts, The New Republic -
The Confusion of Young Torlessby Robert Musil, J. M. Coetzee, Shaun WhitesideISBN 0142180009 (0-14-218000-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion of Young Torless'Book summary:Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational undercurrents of humanity. The Confusions of Young Törless, published in 1906 while he was a student, uncovers the bullying, snobbery, and vicious homoerotic violence at an elite boys academy. Unsparingly honest in its depiction of the author's tangled feelings about his mother, other women, and male bonding, it also vividly illustrates the crisis of a whole society, where the breakdown of traditional values and the cult of pitiless masculine strength were soon to lead to the cataclysm of the First World War and the rise of fascism. A century later, Musil's first novel still retains its shocking, prophetic power.[via]More editions of The Confusion of Young Torless:
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Correctionby Thomas Bernhard, Sophie WilkinsISBN 0226043932 (0-226-04393-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Correction'Book summary:"Bernhard's prose is lapidary and translucent in its vocabulary, but sinuous and formidably dense in its phrasing. This prose enacts the essential motif of the novel: the notion that every 'correction' is also a negation . . . . The remarkable point is the extent to which the ascetic compactness of Bernhard's style turns these abstractions into a sensory presence . . . . [Bernhard's] connections, at once developmental and contrastive, with the great 'Austrian' constellation of Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Musil and Broch become ever clearer."--George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement[via]
"Correction is something exceedingly rare among novels of recent years: a paradigm of consciousness and not simply a product . . . . Bernhard has said that 'the art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable,' and his novel joins that small group of literary works which nobly help us to do that."--Richard Gilman, The Nation
"It is high time that we keep Bernhard firmly in our mind, as European readers have been doing for many years now."--Peter Demetz, Christian Science Monitor 
Cutting Timberby Thomas Bernhard, Ewald OsersISBN 0704326558 (0-7043-2655-8)
Hardcover, Texas Bookman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cutting Timber'Book summary:A black comedy of manners in which Bernhard portrays Viennese bourgeois society, the theatre world, and civilization itself. The narrator has spent the last 30 years in London. On a brief trip to Vienna he meets a couple he knew in his youth, who tell him of the suicide of another mutual friend. [via]
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Death of Virgilby Hermann Broch, Jean Starr UntermeyerISBN 0679755489 (0-679-75548-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of Virgil'Book summary:It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of twentieth-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an immediacy that is at once sensual and profound. Begun while Broch was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, The Death of Virgil is part historical novel and part prose poem -- and always an intensely musical and immensely evocative meditation on the relation between life and death, the ancient and the modern. [via]
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- Death of Virgil: ISBN 0865471150 (0-86547-115-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Death of Virgil: ISBN 0710087632 (0-7100-8763-2)
Hardcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul - Death of Virgil: ISBN 0844617423 (0-8446-1742-3)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc - Death of Virgil: ISBN 0679755489 (0-679-75548-9)
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- Death of Virgil: ISBN 0865471150 (0-86547-115-0)
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Dream Storyby Arthur Schnitzler, Otto P. SchinnererISBN 1931243484 (1-931243-48-4)
Softcover, Green Integer Books
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El Castilloby Franz Kafka, Miguel SaenzISBN 849759326X (84-9759-326-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Castillo'Book summary:El castillo es una novela de Franz Kafka. Publicada póstumamente, se trata de una obra inconclusa que Kafka había empezado a escribir en enero de 1922.
Su protagonista, conocido solamente como K., lucha para acceder a las misteriosas autoridades de un castillo que gobierna el pueblo al cual K. ha llegado a trabajar como agrimensor. En líneas generales, El castillo trata sobre la alienación, la burocracia, y la frustración, aparentemente interminable, de los intentos de un hombre de oponerse al sistema.
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Extinctionby Thomas Bernhard, David McLintockISBN 0226043835 (0-226-04383-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extinction'Book summary:From the late Thomas Bernhard, arguably Austria's most influential novelist of the postwar period, and one of the greatest artists in all twentieth-century literature in the German language, his magnum opus.
Extinction, Bernhard's last work of fiction, takes the form of the autobiographical testimony of Franz-Josef Murau, the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family. Murau lives in Rome in self-imposed exile from his family, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On returning from his sister's wedding to the "wine-cork manufacturer" on the family estate of Wolfsegg, having resolved never to go home again, Murau receives a telegram informing him of the death of his parents and brother in a car crash. Not only must he now go back, he must do so as the master of Wolfsegg. And he must decide its fate.
Divided into two halves, Extinction explores Murau's rush of memories of Wolfsegg as he stands at his Roman window considering the fateful telegram, in counterpoint to his return to Wolfsegg and the preparations for the funeral itself.
Written in the seamless style for which Bernhard became famous, Extinction is the ultimate proof of his extraordinary literary genius. It is his summing-up against Austria's treacherous past and -- in unprecedented fashion -- a revelation of his own incredibly complex personality, of his relationship with the world in which he lived, and the one he left behind.
A literary event of the first magnitude. [via] 
Eyes Wide Shutby Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Arthur SchnitzlerISBN 0446676322 (0-446-67632-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Flight Without Endby RothISBN 1585673854 (1-58567-385-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flight Without End'Book summary:Disillusioned by the new ideologies circulating in Europe after World War I, Franz Tunda is the archetypal modern man taken up by the currents of history. [via]
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Gargoylesby Thomas BernhardISBN 1400077559 (1-4000-7755-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosisby Franz KafkaISBN 9500362406 (950-03-6240-6)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis'Book summary:-Al despertar Gregorio Samza una manana, se encontro en su cama convertido en un montruoso insecto.-Tal es el abrupto comienzo, que nos situa de raiz bajo unas reglas distintas, de LA METAMORFOSIS, sin duda la onra de Franz Kafka 1883-1924 que ha alcanzado mayor celebridad. [via]
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- La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis: ISBN 9505811322 (950-581-132-2)
Softcover, Colihue/Argentina - La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis: ISBN 9583002879 (958-30-0287-9)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc - La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis: ISBN 9875505471 (987-550-547-1)
Softcover, Longseller S.A. - La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis: ISBN 8484034445 (84-8403-444-5)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros - La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis: ISBN 9500362406 (950-03-6240-6)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
- La Metamorfosis / the Metamorphosis: ISBN 9505811322 (950-581-132-2)
La Pianista / The Pianistby Elfriede JelinekISBN 9879397355 (987-9397-35-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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The Loserby Thomas Bernhard, Mark M. Anderson, Jack DawsonISBN 1400077540 (1-4000-7754-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Loser'Book summary:For music lovers, perfectionists, and estheticians, Thomas Bernhard's The Loser (1983) poses an irresistible drama of failed excellence. In 1953 three friends, among whom is the famed Glenn Gould, study with Horowitz. Rarely sleeping, hardly eating, they burn intensely with the white and ruthless flame of virtuosity. Only Gould ascends. But this is no conventional narrative--neat, action-driven, or linear. It opens with the specter of death--Gould's at 51, and a suicide. Art exalts even as it destroys, when the aspirant is found wanting. Both Wertheimer, the suicide, and the narrator turn their backs on their musical careers, thus triggering their process of "deterioration." What is the consequence of throwing it all away? And yet, what are the rewards of realized genius? After Gould becomes, indeed, Glenn Gould, the two friends go to visit him in Canada. "He had barricaded himself in his house. For life. All our lives the three of us have shared the desire to barricade ourselves from the world. All three of us were born barricade fanatics."
Bernhard fans will recognize the restrained rant, the execution of an idea carried to a logical, caustic extreme. The rant creates, of the novel, a grand philosophical speculation: What is devotion to one's art? What is it to truly understand one's art and to not misuse one's gift? And, alas, The Loser can also be read as the profound consequence of perfectionism, whereby all efforts to create or execute anything of note are squashed in the critical mind's ruthless self-scrutiny. The narrator works, for example, on his Glenn Gould essay for nine years, grateful, in the end, that he has published nothing. "How good it is that none of these imperfect, incomplete works has ever appeared, I thought, had I published them.... [T]oday I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness." The one regenerative act seems to be that of self-destruction. Destruction, indeed, becomes the flip side of perfectionist rigor. Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) was his own unique genius and in The Loser, one of his most acclaimed novels, he creates a chilling portrait of tragic compulsion, teasing and testing our assumptions human behavior. --Hollis Giamatteo [via]
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- The Loser: ISBN 0226043886 (0-226-04388-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Loser: ISBN 0679741798 (0-679-74179-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Loser: ISBN 0394572394 (0-394-57239-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Loser: ISBN 0679400877 (0-679-40087-7)
Hardcover, Knopf - The Loser: ISBN 1400077540 (1-4000-7754-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
- The Loser: ISBN 0226043886 (0-226-04388-6)
Man Without Qualitiesby Robert Musil, Burton Pike, Sophie WilkinsISBN 0679767878 (0-679-76787-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man Without Qualities'Book summary:"Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance."--New Republic. [via]
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- Man Without Qualities: ISBN 0679768025 (0-679-76802-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Man Without Qualities: ISBN 0399501525 (0-399-50152-5)
Softcover, Perigee - Man Without Qualities: ISBN 0394510526 (0-394-51052-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Man Without Qualities: ISBN 0679767878 (0-679-76787-8)
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- Man Without Qualities: ISBN 0679768025 (0-679-76802-5)
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The Man Without Qualitiesby Harold BloomISBN 0791081222 (0-7910-8122-2)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Without Qualities'Book summary:Read a critical interpretation of Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities, edited by Harold Bloom. Includes table of contents, chronology, contributors, bibliography, acknowledgements and index. Critical Guide: 211 pages. [via]
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Man Without Qualities: The Like of It Now HappensISBN 0436298007 (0-436-29800-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Old Mastersby Thomas Bernhard, Ewald OsersISBN 0226043916 (0-226-04391-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Piano Teacherby Elfriede JelinekISBN 1555840523 (1-55584-052-3)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Teacher'Book summary:The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.[via]
Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears to be a seamless tissue of boredom, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night to watch live sex shows and sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first, but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of sexual perversity, suppressed violence, and human degradation.
Celebrated throughout Europe for the intensity and frankness of her writings and awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in the world today. The Piano Teacher was made into a film, released in the United States in 2001, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.More editions of The Piano Teacher:
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The Piano Teacherby Joachim Neugroschel, Elfriede JelinekISBN 1852427507 (1-85242-750-7)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Teacher'Book summary:The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek Deep passion, thwarted sexuality and love-hate for a mother dominate the life of Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds Walter Klemmer, music student and ladies' man. Jelinek's masterpiece, The Piano Teacher was for Publishers' Weekly "Brilliant and uncompromising." [via]
Posthumous Papers of a Living Authorby Robert Musil, Peter WortsmanISBN 0941419010 (0-941419-01-0)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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- Posthumous Papers of a Living Author: ISBN 0976395045 (0-9763950-4-5)
Softcover, Archipelago Books - Posthumous Papers of a Living Author: ISBN 0140189157 (0-14-018915-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Posthumous Papers of a Living Author: ISBN 0941419002 (0-941419-00-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Posthumous Papers of a Living Author: ISBN 0941419010 (0-941419-01-0)
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- Posthumous Papers of a Living Author: ISBN 0976395045 (0-9763950-4-5)
Precision and Soul: Essays and Addressesby Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. LuftISBN 0226554090 (0-226-55409-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses'Book summary:"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."Robert Musil[via]
Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937. Offering a perspective on modern society and intellectual life, they are concerned with the crisis of modern culture as it manifests itself in science and mathematics, capitalism and nationalism, the changing roles of women and writers, and more. Writing to find his way in a world where moral systems everywhere were seemingly in decay, Musil strives to reconcile the ongoing conflict between functional relativism and the passionate search for ethical values.
Robert Musil was born in 1880 and died in 1942. His first novel, Young Törless, is available in English. A new two-volume translation by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins of The Man without Qualities is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf.
"Now we have these thirty-one invaluable and entertaining pieces, from an article on 'The Obscene and Pathological in Art' to the equally provocative talk 'On Stupidity,' which, with a new translation of The Man without Qualities forthcoming . . . amount to a literary event for the reader of English comparable to Constance Garnett's massive translation of Chekhov's stories."Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune
"Musil is one of the few great moderns, one of the handful who ventured to confront the issues that shape and define our time. . . . He has a range and a striking capacity every bit as great as that of Mann, Joyce, or Beckett."Boston Review
"These essays are crucial in understanding a writer and critic whose lifelong task was an attempt to resolve the dichotomy between the precision of scientific form and the soulthe matter of life and art."ChoiceMore editions of Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses:
The Radetzky Marchby Joseph Roth, Nadine GordimerISBN 1585673269 (1-58567-326-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Radetzky March'Book summary:Joseph Roth's 1932 novel, The Radetzky March, starts with an accident that creates a dynasty. When an infantry lieutenant steps in front of a bullet intended for the young Franz Joseph, the Austro-Hungarian emperor rewards him with wealth, promotion, and a knighthood. Almost overnight, Joseph Trotta is "severed" from his ancestors, and his family is transformed from unremarkable soldiers and peasants living in the outer reaches of the empire to barons and high-ranking officials living near the imperial palace. As long as Franz Joseph is the Kaiser, their status is secure. But when Trotta happens upon a schoolbook account of the event that exaggerates his heroism, he is shaken:
He had been driven from the paradise of simple faith in Emperor and Virtue, Truth, and Justice, and, now fettered in silence and endurance, he may have realized that the stability of the world, the power of laws, and the glory of majesties were all based on deviousness.
As World War I approaches and the monarchy's limitations become apparent, Trotta's son and grandson become even further removed from this paradise. They continue to follow the codes of honor and duty, though such behavioral guides become pointless, even burdensome, in a world shorn of simple faith in an emperor. Trotta's grandson Carl Joseph finds his military career overwhelmed by bad horsemanship, alcohol dependency, frivolous roulette and baccarat debts, and misguided love affairs--the kinds of flaws, he thinks, that are inevitable without the self-assurance and practical knowledge that he would have gained had he earned (rather than inherited) his position. Not long ago, he thinks wistfully, his family lived as peasants "in dwarfed huts, making their wives fertile by night and their fields by day." It is here that the Trottas' demise is at its most poignant, as the focus of the narrative shifts from the loss of status to the far more devastating loss of purpose.In both style and temperament, Roth's novel stands between the 19th and 20th centuries, and the three Trottas could be seen as part of a progression that stretches back to Tolstoy's Prince Andrei and looks ahead to the Mathieu of Sartre's Les Chemins de la Liberté trilogy. Although The Radetzky March illustrates why the monarchy was doomed, and isn't blind to the new nations and ideologies on the horizon, Roth is more interested in his characters' psychology than their politics. And their central difficulty--the bewildering meaninglessness that follows the dissolution of an ideal--has been a fundamental 20th-century dilemma. The Trottas are, in Roth's stunning phrase, "homesick for the Kaiser." One need only substitute "the Chairman" or "Marxism" or "God" to understand the novel's lasting resonance. --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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- The Radetzky March: ISBN 0879510153 (0-87951-015-3)
Softcover, Overlook Pr - The Radetzky March: ISBN 0879511893 (0-87951-189-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Radetzky March: ISBN 0879515589 (0-87951-558-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Radetzky March: ISBN 0713904690 (0-7139-0469-0)
Hardcover, Allen Lane - The Radetzky March: ISBN 0879515481 (0-87951-548-1)
Hardcover, Overlook Press, The - The Radetzky March: ISBN 1585673269 (1-58567-326-9)
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- The Radetzky March: ISBN 0879510153 (0-87951-015-3)
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The Radetzky Marchby Joachim Neugroschel, Joseph Roth, Alan BanceISBN 0679451005 (0-679-45100-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Radetzky March'Book summary:Joseph Roth's 1932 novel, The Radetzky March, starts with an accident that creates a dynasty. When an infantry lieutenant steps in front of a bullet intended for the young Franz Joseph, the Austro-Hungarian emperor rewards him with wealth, promotion, and a knighthood. Almost overnight, Joseph Trotta is "severed" from his ancestors, and his family is transformed from unremarkable soldiers and peasants living in the outer reaches of the empire to barons and high-ranking officials living near the imperial palace. As long as Franz Joseph is the Kaiser, their status is secure. But when Trotta happens upon a schoolbook account of the event that exaggerates his heroism, he is shaken:
He had been driven from the paradise of simple faith in Emperor and Virtue, Truth, and Justice, and, now fettered in silence and endurance, he may have realized that the stability of the world, the power of laws, and the glory of majesties were all based on deviousness.
As World War I approaches and the monarchy's limitations become apparent, Trotta's son and grandson become even further removed from this paradise. They continue to follow the codes of honor and duty, though such behavioral guides become pointless, even burdensome, in a world shorn of simple faith in an emperor. Trotta's grandson Carl Joseph finds his military career overwhelmed by bad horsemanship, alcohol dependency, frivolous roulette and baccarat debts, and misguided love affairs--the kinds of flaws, he thinks, that are inevitable without the self-assurance and practical knowledge that he would have gained had he earned (rather than inherited) his position. Not long ago, he thinks wistfully, his family lived as peasants "in dwarfed huts, making their wives fertile by night and their fields by day." It is here that the Trottas' demise is at its most poignant, as the focus of the narrative shifts from the loss of status to the far more devastating loss of purpose.In both style and temperament, Roth's novel stands between the 19th and 20th centuries, and the three Trottas could be seen as part of a progression that stretches back to Tolstoy's Prince Andrei and looks ahead to the Mathieu of Sartre's Les Chemins de la Liberté trilogy. Although The Radetzky March illustrates why the monarchy was doomed, and isn't blind to the new nations and ideologies on the horizon, Roth is more interested in his characters' psychology than their politics. And their central difficulty--the bewildering meaninglessness that follows the dissolution of an ideal--has been a fundamental 20th-century dilemma. The Trottas are, in Roth's stunning phrase, "homesick for the Kaiser." One need only substitute "the Chairman" or "Marxism" or "God" to understand the novel's lasting resonance. --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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The Sleepwalkersby Hermann Broch, Willa Muir, Edwin MuirISBN 0679764062 (0-679-76406-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sleepwalkers'Book summary:With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in the intimate daily life of Germany, Broch was identifying the oceanic changes that would shortly sweep that life into the abyss.
Whether he is writing about a neurotic army officer (The Romantic), a disgruntled bookkeeper and would-be assassin (The Anarchist), or an opportunistic war-deserter (The Relaist), Broch immerses himself in the twists of his characters' psyches, and at the same time soars above them, to produce a prophetic portrait of a world tormented by its loss of faith, morals, and reason. [via] 
The Spellby Hermann Broch, H.F. Broch De RothermannISBN 0865473595 (0-86547-359-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Three Novellasby Kenneth J. Northcott, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Bernhard, Brian Evenson, Peter JansenISBN 0226044327 (0-226-04432-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Voice Imitatorby Kenneth J. Northcott, Thomas BernhardISBN 0226044017 (0-226-04401-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voice Imitator'Book summary:The work of late Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard was no one's idea of an uplifting read. Given to writing mostly dense, bleak, darkly comic, one-paragraph novels such as The Loser, Bernhard has rarely received the audience he deserves. The Voice Imitator, while unlikely to change this basic fact, does give us Bernhard's singularly pessimistic worldview in perhaps more digestible little chunks--some of them very little, indeed. (Here is the entirety of the short story "Mail": "For years after our mother's death, the Post Office still delivered letters that were addressed to her. The Post Office had taken no notice of her death.")
In fact, none of the 104 stories collected here are longer than a page--and with the tremendous variety of disaster and tragedy they contain (e.g., suicide, disappearance, murder, madness, corruption), there's not much room for characterization or plot. These read more like fragments, anecdotes, or snippets of news stories than conventional short narratives. Despite their brevity, however, these stories display all the signature elements of the Bernhardian oeuvre: cynicism, misanthropy, contempt for his native country, and withering scorn for the futility of all human effort. They might be an acquired taste--but one with undeniable force. With his black humor, deadly satire, and loathing for bureaucracy, Bernhard is the spiritual heir of writers such as Kafka, Grass, and Beckett--perhaps on a very bad day. [via]
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The Voice Imitatorby Thomas BernhardISBN 0226044025 (0-226-04402-5)
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Werkeby Martin Huber, Thomas Bernhard, Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, Manfred Mittermayer, Bernhard Judex, Renate LangerISBN 3518415026 (3-518-41502-6)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp
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Wittgenstein's Nephewby Thomas Bernhard, David McLintockISBN 0226043924 (0-226-04392-4)
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Woodcuttersby Thomas BernhardISBN 0226043967 (0-226-04396-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Woodcutters'Book summary:This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at an 'artistic dinner' given by a composer and his society wifea couple that the writer once admired and has come to loathe. The guest of honor, an actor from the Burgtheater, is late. As the other guests wait impatiently, they are seen through the critical eye of the narrator, who begins a silent but frenzied, sometimes maniacal, and often ambivalent tirade against these former friends, most of whom were brought together by the woman whom they had buried that day. Reflections on Joana's life and suicide are mixed with these denunciations until the famous actor arrives, bringing a culmination to the evening for which the narrator had not even thought to hope.[via]
"Mr. Bernhard's portrait of a society in dissolution has a Scandinavian darkness reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg, but it is filtered through a minimalist prose. . . . Woodcutters offers an unusually intense, engrossing literary experience."Mark Anderson, New York Times Book Review
"Musical, dramatic and set in Vienna, Woodcutters. . . .resembles a Strauss operetta with a libretto by Beckett."Joseph Costes, Chicago Tribune
"Thomas Bernhard, the great pessimist-rhapsodist of German literature . . . never compromises, never makes peace with life. . . . Only in the pure, fierce isolation of his art can he get justice."Michael Feingold, Village Voice
"In typical Bernhardian fashion the narrator is moved by hatred and affection for a society that he believes destroys the very artistic genius it purports to glorify. A superb translation."Library Journal
Yesby Thomas Bernhard, Ewald OsersISBN 0226043908 (0-226-04390-8)
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Young Torlessby Robert Musil, Eithne Wilkins, Ernst KaiserISBN 0394710150 (0-394-71015-0)
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Ausloschung: Ein Zerfallby Thomas BernhardISBN 351838063X (3-518-38063-X)
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Betonby Thomas BernhardISBN 3518021494 (3-518-02149-4)
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Holzfallen: Eine Erregungby Thomas BernhardISBN 3518046942 (3-518-04694-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holzfallen: Eine Erregung'Book summary:Es war das Skandalbuch des Jahres 1984: Beschlagnahmungen in österreichischen Buchhandlungen, ein bevorstehender "Ehrenbeleidigungsprozess", heftiger Medienrummel. Thomas Bernhard, dieser begnadete Beschimpfungskünstler, war in Holzfällen zu großer Form aufgelaufen und hatte Künstlerkollegen und ehemalige Förderer und Weggefährten schonungslos ins Visier genommen. Das Resultat: eine -- ob nun beabsichtigt oder nicht -- größere öffentliche "Erregung". Nach fast 20 Jahren ist davon naturgemäß nichts übrig geblieben. Außer einem der besten Bücher Thomas Bernhards.
Im Booklet erinnert Kai Luehrs-Kaiser in einem aufschlussreichen Artikel an die Entstehungsgeschichte und die biografischen Hintergründe des Romans und würdigt Holzfällen als einen Wendepunkt im Werk Thomas Bernhards.
Ein Holtzmann liest Holzfällen. Was wie ein witziger Zufall wirkt, ist in Wahrheit ein wahrer Glücksfall. Denn einen besseren Interpreten dieses fulminanten Monologs -- dieser Ohrensessel-Tirade während eines "künstlerischen Abendessens bei den Eheleuten Auersberger" -- als den großen Schauspieler Thomas Holtzmann, kann man sich schwerlich vorstellen. Mit seiner unverwechselbar kräftigen und zugleich stets leicht brüchig wirkenden Stimme spürt er alle Nuancen des Textes auf und macht deutlich, was Thomas Bernhard hinter seiner Maske aus Wut und Hass eigentlich war: ein großer Komödiant. --Christian Stahl
Spieldauer: zirka 470 Minuten, 7 CDs, vollständige Lesung mit Thomas Holtzmann. [via]
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Die Klavierspielerin: Romanby Elfriede JelinekISBN 3498033166 (3-498-03316-6)
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Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften: Romanby Robert Musil, Adolf FriseISBN 3498092855 (3-498-09285-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften: Roman'Book summary:Musils Protagonist Ulrich ist gar kein Mann ohne Eigenschaften. Der Romantitel führt da ein wenig in die Irre. Tatsächlich ist es eine "Welt von Eigenschaften ohne Mann", die im Buch nichts Charakteristisches mehr zu bieten hat. Bereits die umwerfende Eingangssequenz macht diesen Leerlauf anschaulich, indem sie den Leserblick trichterförmig von metereologischen Banalitäten zu einem Verkehrsunfall in Wien an "einem schönen Augusttag des Jahres 1913" hinunterlenkt, dessen vermeintliche Tragik technische Erklärungen (Bremsversagen) bagatellisieren. Wie in Samuel Becketts Murphy darf auch hier die Sonne zunächst "auf nichts Neues" und Besonderes mehr scheinen. Diese Erkenntnis bringt Ulrich letztlich dazu, "Urlaub vom Leben" zu nehmen und sich in Reflexionen über eben dieses Leben zu ergehen. Die selbstgewählte "Eigenschaftslosigkeit" der Figur erweist sich so als ihre herausragendste Eigenschaft.
Im Mann ohne Eigenschaften passiert nur wenig. Aber es wird unendlich viel gedacht im Buch, und am Ende wird sogar noch intensiv gefühlt: In der Geschwisterliebe Ulrichs zu Agathe realisiert sich die Utopie eines "anderen Zustands" jenseits der absurden Welt. Hierfür findet der Mann ohne Eigenschaften dann poetisch präzise Bilder ohne intellektuelle Schwere, so in meinem Lieblingskapitel Atemzüge eines Sommertags: "Die Sonne war unterdessen höher gestiegen, die Stühle hatten sie wie gestrandete Boote in dem flachen Schatten beim Haus zurückgelassen. Ein geräuschloser Strom glanzlosen Blütenschnees schwebte, von einer abgeblühten Baumgruppe kommend, durch den Sonnenschein; und der Atem, der ihn trug, war so sanft, daß sich kein Blatt regte. Kein Schatten fiel davon auf das Grün des Rasens, aber dieses schien sich von innen zu verdunkeln wie ein Auge". Gäbe es nur diese wunderschöne Stelle, so hätte sich die Lektüre der weit über 1000 vorangegangenen Seiten schon gelohnt. --Thomas Köster [via]
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Radetzkymarsch: Romanby Joseph RothISBN 3423017155 (3-423-01715-5)
Hardcover, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag
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Die Schlafwandler: E. Romantrilogieby Hermann BrochISBN 3518024914 (3-518-02491-4)
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Der Tod Des Vergilby Hermann BrochISBN 3518067966 (3-518-06796-6)
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Der Untergeherby Thomas BernhardISBN 3518045075 (3-518-04507-5)
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Die Verzauberung: Romanby Hermann Broch, Paul Michael LutzelerISBN 3518024930 (3-518-02493-0)
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Wittgensteins Neffeby Thomas BernhardISBN 3518017888 (3-518-01788-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wittgensteins Neffe'Book summary:Bernhard, Thomas: Wittgensteins Neffe, Eine Freundschaft, Frankfurt/Main, Suhrkamp 1982, 164 S., OPbd. m. OU. (BS 788), EA, WG 2,46, gut erhalten [via]
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El Angel De LA Ventana De Occidenteby Gustav MeyrinkISBN 8486221676 (84-86221-67-6)
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Auto de Fe / Act of Faith: Obra completa II/Complete Works IIby Elias CanettiISBN 8497936787 (84-9793-678-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Auto de Fe / Act of Faith: Obra completa II/Complete Works II'Book summary:A traves de la historia de Peter Kien, un especialista en China internacionalmente conocido, propietario de una biblioteca de 25.000 volumenes de la que se ocupa el mismo, Canetti habla de los peligros de considerar que un intelectualismo rigido y dogmatico, encerrado en si mismo, pueda prevalecer sobre el mal, el caos y la destruccion. Asi, el protagonista de Auto de fe, despues de sonar que sus libros eran quemados, se casa con su asistenta, Teresa, una mujer iletrada y embrutecida, que habra de ayudarle en la tarea de preservar su biblioteca. Pero Teresa le echa de su casa y Kien, convertido en un mendigo, vaga por el submundo de la ciudad, con su espiritu fluctuando entre horribles alucinaciones y una realidad inenarrable. Su desintegracion final le llevara, en una accion que cierra el ciclo de su sueno premonitorio, a quemar su biblioteca y esperar alli la muerte, en medio del incendio. Con Auto de fe continuamos con la edicion de la obra completa de Canetti, dirigida por Juan Jose del Solar. «Salvaje, sutil, hermosamente misteriosa. Una de las pocas grandes novelas del siglo.» IRIS MURDOCH [via]
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Ficcion De Ajedrezby Stefan ZweigISBN 8495359154 (84-95359-15-4)
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La metamorfosis/ The Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka, Luis ScafatiISBN 8497950038 (84-9795-003-8)
Hardcover, Panoplia Export S L
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Novela De Ajedrez / Chess Novelby Stefan ZweigISBN 8495359456 (84-95359-45-6)
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