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Oskar Kokoschka - The Power of Music (1918/20)
Thomas Bernhard
A Scrupulous Fidelity, On Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser – The Brooklyn Rail
A short extract from a staged version of the novel.
Thomas Bernhard as a patient, described by his half-brother.
Losers, f**k-ups and vampires
You know the types…
The Glenn Gould less Travelled….
Gould as a cultural critic…
Gould and Liberace - The Music Show - ABC Radio National
Gould and his Nemesis…..
Gould as a Sound Artist…there’s a version of this with images as well.
…and finally, Gould slips into another persona the better to take on Mozart.
Speaking of which…
…and the one more traveled.
Owning Der Untergeher.
* In German Der Untergeher. Buch von Thomas Bernhard (Suhrkamp Verlag)
* In English The Loser - Thomas Bernhard Reissues - Books | Faber & Faber
* Em Portuguese O NÁUFRAGO - - Grupo Companhia das Letras
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