9780226044026
The Voice Imitator
Thomas Bernhard
ISBN 13: 9780226044026
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
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In The Voice Imitator, translated by Kenneth Northcott, Bernhard gives us one of his most darkly comic works. A series of parable-like anecdotes - some drawn from newspaper reports, some from conversation, some from hearsay - this satire is both subtle and acerbic. What initially appear to be quaint little stories indict the sterility and callousness of modern life, not just in urban centers but everywhere. Bernhard presents an ordinary world careening into absurdity and disaster. Politicians, professionals, tourists, civil servants - the usual victims of Bernhard's inspired misanthropy - succumb one after another to madness, mishap, or suicide.
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"If you are foolish enough to think that things will all work out in the end...,then steer clear of Thomas Bernhard's books -- and of this review. You'll only be offended....Those still reading can be assured that simperingly positive attitudes, blind faith, feel-good philosophy and deluded optimism--all of which have become like a new form of oppressive American weather--will never show up in the brutal darkness of Bernhard's work. And thank God for it....These are blistering anecdotes, negative distortions of news items, stories of severity that portray depths of hatred with a casual comic touch."
Ben Marcus, Salon, 12/10/1997
Review:"Part diatribe, part black comedy and part philosophical investigation, the book strikes all the major themes in Bernhard's novels and plays, especially his hatred of Austria, his native land."
Peter Filkins, New York Times Book Review, 12/14/1997
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