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The Loser by Thomas Bernhard is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Loser about?

Mid-century Austria. Three aspiring concert pianists - Wertheimer, Glenn Gould, and the narrator - have dedicated their lives to achieving the status of a virtuoso. But one day, two of them overhear Gould playing Bach's GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, and his incomparable genius instantly destroys them both. They are forced to abandon their musical ambitions: Wertheimer, over a tortured process of disintegration that sees him becoming obsessed with both writing and his own sister, with whom he has a quasi-incestuous relationship culminating in death; and the narrator, instantly, retreating into obscurity to write a book that he periodically destroys and restarts. Written as a monologue in one remarkable unbroken paragraph, Thomas Bernhard's dazzling meditation on failure, genius, and fame is a radical new reading experience: musical, paralysing, raging, and inimitable. [From Amazon.]

Who reads The Loser?

Author

Thomas Bernhard

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400077540

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Music, Arts

Rating

4.06 / 5 (43 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14