Bibliograph

Frost, Thomas Bernhard ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

Type

Label

Frost, Thomas Bernhard ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Frost

Oclc number

65197985

Responsibility statement

Thomas Bernhard ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

Summary

A student's increasingly erratic dispatches over 27 days comprise this first novel by Bernhard. An unnamed medical student is sent from Vienna by his supervisor, an eminent surgeon named Strauch, to undertake "precise observation" of the surgeon's brother, a famous painter who has suddenly left the city for the "dismal" village of Weng. After "systematically inveigling" himself into the company of the painter the student slowly feels his own mood and mental attitudes being subsumed by the painter's

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