In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher -- who fears Reger's plans to kill himself -- gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love-hate relationship with

art. With characteristically acerbic wit, Bernhard exposes the pretensions and aspirations of humanity in a novel at once pessimistic and strangely exhilarating.

"Bernhard's... most enjoyable novel." -- Robert Craft, New York Review of Books.

"Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction." -- George Steiner

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