Sitting in the darkness, the narrator observes the
guests of the couple
Auersberger. They arrived and settled at the table for supper. Therefore wants him to be sitting there without being seen: as soon as it fell by chance on
Auersberger during her shopping. It has no desire to see them, to talk to them, nor any desire to go to this dinner artistic, but trapped, he accepted the invitation. Gathered around the table, the guests discuss literature, music, theatre, philosophy and suicide;
Joana, one of theirs, was hanged a few days earlier. Among the guests, the
actor of the
Vienna Burgtheater who comes to the late delivery after his
Wild Duck by
Ibsen. The
Jeannie Billroth just say his word, add his grain of salt, which will have the effect of ruining the sauce .. It gives a replica of the actor
Burg and confronts at the edge of exasperation. This is the core issue.
Thomas Bernhard hides behind his mask convive discreet, anonymous and keen observer. He referred to his early years, those who have followed the end of his musical studies and the beginning of his literary career. Years lean and bohemian. The reader should keep things in between fiction and reality.
Thomas Bernhard does not proceed easily. When it comes to him, the player collects valuable information about his exceptional But more questions than answers: is this misconception that
Thomas Bernhard Viennese society and its
artists worldly? If it does, it does so in silence. His writing style is all the more incisive. The comical and the absurd come together here in this novel
published in 1984 and subtitled:
An irritation. It lies between
The castaway (published in 1983) and
Former Masters (published in 1985). At the heart of this trinity,
Some falling trees resembles the two titles he rubs it consists of a single paragraph (215 pages). It is appropriate to question the meaning of this title - trees to be felled - he leaves look and it poses a conundrum: what does this tirade of the
Burgtheater actor:
Forest, forest, high forest, exclaimed, at the height of exasperation, Some falling trees . Get understand what. Metaphor subtle and paradoxical that a spirit at its peak. Was it the gradual extinction of these authentic artists whose
Thomas Bernhard likes to give us the sweet memory? It retains the unique tone that made him a writer of both hated and adulated. But the last of these options tend to disappear over time, it sells its way to a growing reputation on the international scene.
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