Fiction | Non-fiction
Goethe Dies
Thomas Bernhard
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This collection of four stories is, as long-time fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. In the first story, which lends this volume its title, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the Tractatus Logicus-philosophicus; in “Montaigne: A Story in Twenty-Two Installments” a young man barricades himself in a tower to read; “Reunion”, meanwhile, satirizes that very impulse to escape; and the final story rounds out the collection by making Bernhard himself a victim, persecuted by his greatest enemy – his homeland of Austria