Old Masters

Thomas Bernhard

Original title: Alte Meister

first published 1985 Suhrkamp, 1988 310 pages

Suhrkamp Taschenbuch -- 1553.

The book is set in Vienna on one day around the year of its publication, 1985. (p. 193) Reger is an 82-year-old music critic who writes pieces for The Times. For over thirty years he has sat on the same bench in front of Tintoretto's White-bearded Man in the Bordone Room of the Kunsthistorisches Museum for four or five hours of the morning of every second day. He finds this environment the one in which he can do his...

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Ewald Osers 1 printing we hold · 1996 · Quartet Books (UK)

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Old Masters hardcover · 1996 · Quartet Books (UK) · 156 pages
Old masters edition · 1992 · University of Chicago Press · 156 pages
Ma^itres anciens : comédie edition · 1988 · Gallimard · 253 pages
Alte Meister edition · 1988 · Suhrkamp · 310 pages
Alte Meister edition · 1985 · Suhrkamp · 310 pages

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