glennmiller5309 's review for:

Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard

5.0

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A devastating book. In essence, it is about a man at a dinner party observing and musing upon all the other attendees, decades-old friends and acquaintances of his. All attendees are waiting for the arrival of the guest of honor, an actor from Vienna's Burgtheater. Bernhard captures the limited action, inner dialog, and reflections on the past in a manner in which, to the reader, it is unclear if this is reality or simply the narrator's slightly skewed imagination. It is one of the most brutally honest books on the human condition that I have read in years.