{"product_id":"gargoyles-1","title":"Gargoyles","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGargoyles\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eThomas Bernhard\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0226043991\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Chicago Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1986\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e214\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eEarly one morning a doctor sets out with his son on his daily rounds through the forbidding mountainous countryside. Their visits, a succession of grotesque portraits--a diabetic industrialist living in incestuous isolation with his half-sister; three brothers, occupying a mill set in a deep gorge, who have just strangled a bevy of exotic birds; a crippled musical prodigy whose sister locks him in a cage--lead them to a castle and a paranoid prince, whose \"almost uninterrupted monologue for a hundred pages is a virtuoso verbal performance . . . [in] an extraordinary, somber first novel.\"--A.C. Foote, \u003ci\u003eBook World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"What he shares with the best of [writers such as Sartre, Camus, Mann, and Kafka] is the ability to extract more than utter gloom from his landscape of inconceivable devastation. While the external surface of life is unquestionably grim, he somehow suggests more--the mystic element in experience that calls for symbolic interpretation; the inner significance of states that are akin to surrealistic dream-worlds; man's yearning for health, compassion, sanity.\"--Robert Maurer, \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The feeling grows that Thomas Bernhard is now the most original, concentrated novelist writing in German. His connections . . . with the great constellation of Kafka, Musil, and Broch become ever clearer.\"--George Steiner, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Gargoyles | Thomas Bernhard | Paperback | 0226043991 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks H 1769039","offer_id":50749724098818,"sku":"1769039","price":21.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41DHBGWPF8L.jpg?v=1791965508","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/gargoyles-1","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}