cover image Woodcutters

Woodcutters

Thomas Bernhard. University of Chicago Press, $17.5 (188pp) ISBN 978-0-226-04396-8

The narrator of this story, which is told in a demanding, nonstop stream of consciousness, is a writer who finds himself roped into a dinner party thrown by people he has avoided for 20 years. Spurning conversation, he reviews his grievances against his hosts and their pretentious guests in what PW termed ``a satirical jeremiad.'' (Apr.)