Woodcutters Av Thomas Bernhard

<p><b>LRB BOOKSHOP''S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH </b><br><b>ONE OF THE GUARDIAN''S BEST BOOKS OF 2019</b><b><br>WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY ANNE ENRIGHT, AUTHOR OF THE ACTRESS<br><br></b><b>''If you haven¿t read Bernhard, you will not know of the most radical advance in fiction since Joyce ... My advice: dive in.'' Lucy Ellmann</b><br><br><b>''I absolutely love Bernhard: he is one of the darkest and funniest writers ... A must read for everybody.'' Karl Ove Knausgaard</b><br><br>An unnamed writer arrives at an ''artistic dinner'' hosted by a composer and his society wife: a couple he once admired, but has now come to detest. They have been brought together by their friend Joana''s suicide, but the guest of honour, a famous actor from the Burgtheatre, is late. As the guests await his arrival, little do they know that they are being subjected to the narrator''s merciless scrutiny from his wing-backed throne, the targets of a tirade of epic, frenzied proportions. When the star actor finally arrives,