El malogrado

by Thomas Bernhard, Miguel Sáenz (Translator)

A raíz del suicidio de su mejor amigo, un hombre viaja hasta su antiguo hogar en Austria. Allí rememora la pasión que ambos compartían por el piano, y la turbia amistad que los unió, trastocada al conocer al virtuoso Glenn Gould.
Thomas Bernhard nos adentra en las motivaciones más complejas de la psicología humana, y nos lleva a reflexionar acerca de los ambiguos sentimientos de admiración, frustración y envidia, de la gradual erosión del carácter y de la pulsión nihilista que acompaña una ambición desmedida. Ambientada en una Europa central ya en decadencia, esta gran novela supone también un cuestionamiento de los valores de superación y excelencia tan característicos de nuestras sociedades.

Genres: Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Novels, Literature, Music, 20th Century

167 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian writer who ranks among the most distinguished German-speaking writers of the second half of the 20th century.

Although internationally he’s most acclaimed because of his novels, he was also a prolific playwright. His characters are often at work on a lifetime and never-ending major project while they deal with themes such as suicide, madness and obsession, and, as Bernhard did, a love-hate relationship with Austria. His prose is tumultuous but sober at the same time, philosophic by turns, with a musical cadence and plenty of black humor.

He started publishing in the year 1963 with the novel Frost. His last published work, appearing in the year 1986, was Extinction. Some of his best-known works include The Loser (about a student’s fictionalized relationship with the pianist Glenn Gould), Wittgenstein’s Nephew, and Woodcutters.