Woodcutters (novel)
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Woodcutters (German title: Holzfällen) is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1984. A roman à clef, its subject is the theatre and it forms the second part of a trilogy, between The Loser (1983) and Old Masters (1985) which deal with music and painting respectively. Its publication created an uproar in Austria, where it became a bestseller before a defamation lawsuit by the composer Gerhard Lampersberg [de] resulted in a court order to pulp the remaining copies; Lampersberg, a former friend of Bernhard's and the model for the character Auersberger, subsequently dropped the suit.
Author | Thomas Bernhard |
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Original title | Holzfällen. Eine Erregung |
Country | Austria |
Language | German |
Genre | novel, monologue, Theatre-fiction |
Publisher | Suhrkamp Verlag (Germany) Alfred A. Knopf (US) |
Publication date | 1984 |
Published in English | 1987 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 181 pp |
ISBN | 978-0-394-55152-4 |
OCLC | 15629615 |
833/.914 19 | |
LC Class | PT2662.E7 H6513 1987 |
In his Western Canon of 1994, American literary critic Harold Bloom lists Woodcutters as Bernhard’s masterpiece.