BERNHARD, Thomas. Woodcutters. Trans. from the German by David McLintock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1987. 8vo. First American edition, first printing. Publisher’s quarter red cloth over green paper-covered boards lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Francine Kass. A fine copy, the boards clean, the binding tight and square, with very mild spots to the textblock top edge, the contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped ($15.95), fine and complete.
A sharp example of what Harold Bloom called the author’s magnum opus, which follows one narrator awaiting the arrival of a famed actor at a high-society Viennese party. In so doing, he observes his fellow guests and so begins a vicious, sad, and ironic monologue, reliving through it the last two decades, his pessimistic outlook and, Celine-like, a deep disgust of his fellow guests and people in general, for their ‘farcical pretensions’.
BERNHARD, Thomas. Woodcutters. Trans. from the German by David McLintock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1987. 8vo. First American edition, first printing. Publisher’s quarter red cloth over green paper-covered boards lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Francine Kass. A fine copy, the boards clean, the binding tight and square, with very mild spots to the textblock top edge, the contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped ($15.95), fine and complete.
A sharp example of what Harold Bloom called the author’s magnum opus, which follows one narrator awaiting the arrival of a famed actor at a high-society Viennese party. In so doing, he observes his fellow guests and so begins a vicious, sad, and ironic monologue, reliving through it the last two decades, his pessimistic outlook and, Celine-like, a deep disgust of his fellow guests and people in general, for their ‘farcical pretensions’.
