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The Cheap-Eaters

Thomas Bernhard
3.79/5 (107 ratings)
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The cheap-eaters have been eating at the Vienna Public Kitchen for years, from Monday to Friday, and true to their name, always the cheapest meals. They become the focus of Koller’s scientific attention when he deviates one day from his usual path through the park, leading him to come upon the cheap-eaters and to realize that they must be the focal piece of his years-long, unwritten study of physiognomy. The narrator, a former school friend of Koller’s, tells of his relationship with Koller in a single unbroken paragraph that is both dizzying and absorbing. In Koller, the narrator observes a “gradually ever-growing and utterly exclusive interest in thought . . . . We can get close to such a person, but if we come into contact with him we will be repelled.” Written in Bernhard’s hyperbolic, darkly comic style, The Cheap-Eaters is a study of the limits of language and thought.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
127 pages
Publication:
1990
Publisher:
Quartet
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
070432766X
ISBN13:
9780704327665
kindle Asin:
070432766X

The Cheap-Eaters

Thomas Bernhard
3.79/5 (107 ratings)
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The cheap-eaters have been eating at the Vienna Public Kitchen for years, from Monday to Friday, and true to their name, always the cheapest meals. They become the focus of Koller’s scientific attention when he deviates one day from his usual path through the park, leading him to come upon the cheap-eaters and to realize that they must be the focal piece of his years-long, unwritten study of physiognomy. The narrator, a former school friend of Koller’s, tells of his relationship with Koller in a single unbroken paragraph that is both dizzying and absorbing. In Koller, the narrator observes a “gradually ever-growing and utterly exclusive interest in thought . . . . We can get close to such a person, but if we come into contact with him we will be repelled.” Written in Bernhard’s hyperbolic, darkly comic style, The Cheap-Eaters is a study of the limits of language and thought.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
127 pages
Publication:
1990
Publisher:
Quartet
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
070432766X
ISBN13:
9780704327665
kindle Asin:
070432766X

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