Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction)

Old Masters: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction)

<DIV>In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been <BR>summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While <BR>Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher—who fears Reger's <BR>plans to kill himself—gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his <BR>wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love-hate relationship with <BR>art. With characteristically acerbic wit, Bernhard exposes the <BR>pretensions and aspirations of humanity in a novel at once pessimistic <BR>and strangely exhilarating. <BR><BR>