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title: "The Loser: A Novel"
brand: "thomas bernhard"
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# The Loser: A Novel

**Brand:** thomas bernhard
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- **What is this?** The Loser: A Novel by thomas bernhard
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## Customer Reviews

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    "When we meet the very best, we have to give up
  

*by G***S on Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2017*

Thomas Bernhard writes, "When we meet the very best, we have to give up, I thought." This is a book about the agony, envy, and resignation of not being a genius. Do you require such a book? I needed it, though I did not know that. It's also a book about the misery of inheriting a vast sum of money, /not/ a book I needed, particularly, though I was so hooked I went right along with it.Of all the books I've read that consist of a single, unbroken, paragraph -- Garcia Marquez, Beckett, Saramago --  this was my far the most effortless, the most compulsively readable. My bitterness, I discovered, was downright ecstatic to have some company. It warms like a bonfire, piling on obsessions, repetitions, and brilliance, and some of perhaps the best sentences I've ever read: "A person can be ruined for life in Chur, even if he only spends one night there."This must be a good place to start reading Thomas Bernhard, since I'd never read any of his novels before this one (I'd read only stories of "The Voice Imitator") and now I am determined to read everything. It is an oddly addictive voice; a week later I am still cross I don't have more Bernhard to read.In the midst of investigating misery, ways of surviving it are found and lost, then found and lost again. Art, for one, though it is found to be a most uncertain raft.

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    Really wanted to like this book.
  

*by K***C on Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2018*

I loved the idea of this book (I’m a classical musician myself) but had to put it down halfway through, which is something I almost never do. It read like one long run-on paragraph that never got to the point. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen, but nothing ever did. Maybe that was the point? Maybe some people enjoy this style of neurotic stagnation? I honestly cannot believe I am putting a book down and not finishing it. I just couldn’t. Too many other books on my to-be-read shelf.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Caustic, bitter, and just plain excellent writing.
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2018*

Loved it. A sad and bitter trip to Austria, the narrator’s memories of Glenn Gould and the different ways his contemporaries reacted to his genius were both funny and scathing. A really interesting read, excellent writing.

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