Gargoyles
By: Thomas Bernhard ; translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.
Contributors: Winston, Richard.; Winston, Clara.
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
Publisher: Vintage International
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781400077557
Work titles: Verstörung.
Description: "One morning a doctor and his son set out on daily rounds through the grim mountainous Austrian countryside. They observe the colorful characters they encounter -- from an innkeeper whose wife has been murdered to a crippled musical prodigy kept in a cage -- coping with physical misery, madness, and the brutality of the austere landscape. The parade of human grotesques culminates in a hundred-page monologue by an eccentric, paranoid prince, a relentlessly flowing cascade of words that is classic Bernhard."-- Publisher description.