Gargoyles: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translatedand admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literaryprizes in Germany. Gargoyles, one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surrealstudy of the nature of humanity.

One morning a doctor and his son set out on dailyrounds through the grim mountainous Austrian countryside. They observe the colorfulcharacters they encounter—from an innkeeper whose wife has been murdered to acrippled musical prodigy kept in a cage—coping with physical misery, madness,and the brutality of the austere landscape. The parade of human grotesques culminatesin a hundred-page monologue by an eccentric, paranoid prince, a relentlessly flowingcascade of words that is classic Bernhard.