num_pages: 196
description: The Loser is a brilliant fictional account of an imaginary relationship among three men—the late piano virtuoso Glenn Gould, the unnamed narrator, and a fictional pianist, Wertheimer—who meet in 1953 to study with Vladimir Horowitz. In the face of Gould's incomparable genius, Wertheimer and the narrator renounce their musical ambition, but in very different ways. While the latter sets out to write a book about Gould, Wertheimer sinks deep into despair and self-destruction.
language: English
title: The Loser
titlecomplete: The Loser
characters: Glenn Gould, Wertheimer
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Germany, German Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Music, Contemporary, Classics, Novels
ratings_count: 9977
places: Austria
publisher: University of Chicago Press