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Woodcutters

Thomas Bernhard

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1984
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 182

A writer sits in a wing chair at a Viennese dinner party after a friend's funeral, silently tearing apart everyone in the room, including his own younger self.

While the others were crowding round the actor, who had sunk into the wing chair, I retreated into the darkest corner of the anteroom.
Woodcutters, Thomas Bernhard

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