Postwar Austrian literature gave us Thomas Bernhard, too.
What might have been a tired formula – the run-down café transformed into a sanctuary for a band of likeable oddballs – is lit up by its cast, all in some way struggling with “a hairline rupture”, all seeming to watch life pass them by. And while the novel stands up for the dignity of the human amid the casual violence of progress, it contains something more existential at its heart. ©
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