{"product_id":"walking-a-novella-9780226311043","title":"Walking: A Novella","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Thomas Bernhard\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Bernhard is \"one of the masters of contemporary European fiction\" (George Steiner); \"one of the century's most gifted writers\" (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e); \"a virtuoso of rancor and rage\" (\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and Robert Musil, it is only in recent years that he has gained a devoted cult following in America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A powerful, compact novella, \u003ci\u003eWalking\u003c\/i\u003e provides a perfect introduction to the absurd, dark, and uncommonly comic world of Bernhard, showing a preoccupation with themes-illness and madness, isolation, tragic friendships-that would obsess Bernhard throughout his career. \u003ci\u003eWalking\u003c\/i\u003e records the conversations of the unnamed narrator and his friend Oehler while they walk, discussing anything that comes to mind but always circling back to their mutual friend Karrer, who has gone irrevocably mad. Perhaps the most overtly philosophical work in Bernhard's highly philosophical oeuvre, \u003ci\u003eWalking\u003c\/i\u003e provides a penetrating meditation on the impossibility of truly thinking.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45033289613463,"sku":"9780226311043","price":1401.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226311043.webp?v=1767142282","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/walking-a-novella-9780226311043","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}