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Concrete (novel)
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'Concrete' ('Beton', 1982) is a novel by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard.
Like many of Bernhards books, 'Concrete' is written in the form of a monologueessentially a rant lasting for 150 pages with no chapter breaks or even separate paragraphsby Rudolf, a Viennese amateur musicologist and convalescent. Almost completely isolated from the world, Rudolf, who suffers from sarcoidosis, has spent his adult life pursuing many writing projects on classical musicians.
A new edition of the novel, along with other out-of-print works by Bernhard, was published in 2012 on Faber & Faber's 'Faber Finds' imprint.
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