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Yes (Phoenix Fiction Series)
by Thomas Bernhard

Yes (Phoenix Fiction Series)
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Author: Thomas Bernhard
Translator: Ewald Osers
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1992-11-01
ISBN: 0226043908
Number of pages: 140
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

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Book Review: A formidable novel on the theme of isolation
Summary: 5 Stars

The author portrays an unnamed narrator living in an Austrian village in a "mind-hostile and mood-killing neighbourhood". He lives in nearly total isolation having given up all contacts for the sake of his intellectual work. But eventually his contactlessness proves a catastrophe bringing him to the verge of madness, insanity and suicide. For three months he never leaves his house, full of fear, in a kind of self-incarceration.
One night, seeking the help of the only person he trusts, a real-estate agent called Moritz, the narrator becomes acquainted with an odd couple: a Swiss and his Persian wife who have just arrived in the village to buy a plot for the construction of their house. He finds the Persian woman a regenerating thinking, talking and philosophising partner who saves him from depression and during their conversations he discovers why the Swiss came there to buy a plot which has a marked slope, a high degree of dampness and where snow clearance is impossible in the winter.
A work in which nihilism finds its most uncompromising expression, which presents a human situation devoid of any meaning and which shows that speech is a useless therapy to fend off death. From this perspective there is only one possible answer to the ultimate question.

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