by Thomas Bernhard · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420633022
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«Maestros antiguos» is Thomas Bernhard's comedy, published by Alianza in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
Reger, a musicologist of international renown, has for 36 years visited the Bordone Room of the Kunsthistorische Museum every other day, always sitting on the same bench, facing Tintoretto's «El hombre de la barba blanca». Through his acquaintance Atzbacher, the novel offers a satire on art, criticism and Viennese culture.
It belongs to the Alianza Literaria collection. Translated by Miguel Sáenz. The work was originally published in 1985 as «Alte Meister. Komödie» and won the Prix Médicis étranger in 1988.
For readers of European literary fiction and intellectual satire, with an interest in art, cultural criticism and twentieth-century Austrian narrative.
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive prose style often featuring multiple perspectives on characters and events, idiosyncratic vocabulary and punctuation, and long monologues by protagonists on the verge of insanity.
