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Hakkuu - Muuan mielenkuohu
by Thomas Bernhard
I don't generally like, or even read, books that an author uses to publicly shame a circle of real life friends or ex-partners etc. But after loving The Loser I wanted to read this highly praised one and it turned out to be worth of all those positive reviews. This book is a description of a dinner party held after the funeral of a memeber of a circle of friends who are part of the art scene in Vienna. Bernhard's style of not using paragraphs (which bothered me a bit in The Loser) makes perfect sense in Woodcutters; it makes the inner monologue of the story teller more manic and frantic. The writing is brilliant and psychologically observant. Bernhard uses a lot of repetition which makes the thought patterns appear more authentic; the thoughts go in circles and come back to things the character is most obsessed about. Highly recommend to all those readers who love a good study in human behaviour and the mind!