The loser - Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been hailed by Gabriel Josipovici as
'Austria's finest postwar writer' and by George Steiner as 'one of the
masters of contemporary European fiction.' Faber Finds is proud to
reissue a selection of four of Bernhard's finest novels.

The Loser centres on a
fictional relationship between piano virtuoso Glenn Gould and two of his
fellow students who feel compelled to renounce their musical ambitions
in the face of Gould's incomparable genius. One commits suicide, while
the other - the obsessive, witty, and self-mocking narrator - has
retreated into obscurity. Written as a monologue in one remarkable
unbroken paragraph, The Loser is a brilliant meditation on success, failure, genius, and fame.