韦特海默的厄运在于，就在他经过莫扎特学院二楼三十三号房间的时候，格伦·古尔德恰好在那里弹奏《哥德堡变奏曲》，在弹所谓咏叹调。韦特海默后来把他的经历讲给我听，说他站在三十三号房间门前，听着格伦演奏，直到咏叹调结束。当时我就明白了，这是怎样一种惊骇。
这部独白体小说记述了三个人对钢琴演奏的艺术追求与不同的人生选择：一个成为奇迹，一个沉落，一个转向他路。
作者简介
托马斯·伯恩哈德（Thomas Bernhard，1931—1989）
奥地利著名小说家、剧作家，被公认为20世纪最伟大的德语作家之一，也是“二战”之后德语文坛风格最独特、影响力最大的作家之一，对他有很多称谓：“阿尔卑斯山的贝克特”“敌视人类的作家”“以批判奥地利为职业的作家”“灾难与死亡作家”“夸张艺术家”“故事破坏者”等。
特立独行的伯恩哈德以批判的方式关注人生（生存和生存危机）和社会现实（人道与社会变革）。文字极富音乐性，以犀利的夸张、重复和幽默，将人类境遇中种种愚钝与疾病，痛苦与冷漠，习惯与禁忌推向极端，向纷乱昏暗的世界投掷出一支支光与热的火炬。
译者马文韬
北京大学德语语言文学系教授，曾任《世界文学》杂志顾问，中国外文局翻译专业资格考评中心专家，德国格里美豪森学会理事，2007年起担任奥地利托马斯·伯恩哈德基金会顾问委员会委员。主要论著有《瑞士德语文学史》等。主要译著有小说《黑白天使》《历代大师》，戏剧《纵火犯》《骂观众》《英雄广场》，诗歌《傅立特诗选》《萨拉·基尔施诗选》，以及文学论著《歌德与席勒》等。
Wertheimer's misfortune was that, as he passed by Room 33 on the second floor of the Mozarteum, Glenn Gould happened to be there, playing the Goldberg Variations, playing what is known as an aria. Wertheimer later told me of his experience standing in front of room 33 and listening to Glenn play until the aria was over. I knew then what a horror it was.
This single white book describes three people's artistic pursuit of piano playing and different life choices: one becomes a miracle, one sinks, and one turns to other ways.
About the author
Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)
A famous Austrian novelist and playwright, he is recognized as one of the greatest German writers of the 20th century, and one of the most unique and influential writers in German literature after World War II. "Beckett of the Alps," "writer hostile to humanity," "writer who made a career of criticizing Austria," "writer of disaster and death," "artist of exaggeration," "story breaker," etc.
The maverick Bernhard focuses critically on life (survival and existential crisis) and social reality (humanity and social change). The text is highly musical, and with sharp exaggeration, repetition and humor, it takes all kinds of stupidity and disease, pain and indifference, habits and taboos in the human condition to the extreme, throwing a torch of light and heat to the chaotic and dim world.
Translator Ma Wentao
Professor of the Department of German Language and Literature of Peking University, he has served as consultant of World Literature magazine, expert of Translation Qualification Evaluation Center of China Foreign Languages Administration, member of the board of the Grimehausen Institute of Germany, and member of the Advisory Board of the Thomas Bernhard Foundation of Austria since 2007. His main works are the History of German Literature in Switzerland. His main translations include novels such as "Black and White Angel" and "Masters of the Ages", plays such as "Arsonist", "Scolding the Audience" and "Heroes' Square", poems such as "Follett's Selected Poems" and "Sarah Kirsch's Selected Poems", and literary treatises such as "Goethe and Schiller".
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