Over All The Mountain Tops (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series)
by Thomas Bernhard
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This play is Thomas Bernhard's devastating satire on the business of literature. The novelist Moritz Meister, after years of neglect, has finally achieved the status of Grand Old Man of German literature. With breathtaking regal condescension he receives his minions: a graduate student writing a thesis on him, a journalist preparing an adulatory article, his publisher arranging the publication of his magnum opus. He regales them -- and the audience -- with noble high-flown thoughts on art show more and life, while exploiting his situation to the full to gain honours and material comforts. show lessTags
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Thomas Bernhard was born to Austrian parents in Holland and reared by his mother in the vicinity of Salzburg. His temperament and erratic health created difficulties for him as he grew up in a society governed by National Socialists. Bernhard found the alpine landscapes of his native Austria far more harsh than lyrical. The isolation of the show more characters in his novels is only slightly mitigated by friendship, generally only between men, and never by love. Yet many readers feel this lack of sentimentality gives Bernhard's work an epic power. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh
- Alternate titles*
- Ein deutscher Dichtertag um 1980
- Epigraph*
- Nietzsche Stieglitz und wieder zurück verstehen Sie...
Moritz Meister
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