Thomas Bernhard: Old Masters: A Comedy (Penguin Modern Classics) [2010] paperback APERI flatulence and furious suspicion of

flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J

born in an Ireland that was only just starting to free itself from the worst excesses of Catholic morality - has been talking to the survivors of the institutions

Great to see some old characters making an appearance and the book's twists and turns keep you on the edge of your seat

sophisticated and mysterious Armando Pierleoni reveals his richly symbolic painting of the love between Jesus and Mary Magdalene to his bride Jennifer

born one of nine children into the penniless family of an overwhelmed mother and charming but absent father

Thomas Bernhard: Old Masters: A Comedy (Penguin Modern Classics) [2010] paperback APERI flatulence and furious suspicion ofOld Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, artists, the weather, even the state of public lavatories. His friend Atzbacher has been summoned to meet him, and through his eyes we learn more about