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Woodcutters

Name: Woodcutters
Author: Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard Original title Holzfällen. Eine Erregung (German, 1984)

Woodcutters is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1984. An English translation by Ewald Osers was published in 1985 under the title Cutting Timber: An Irritation; another English translation by David McLintock was published as Woodcutters in 1988.

“You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.”

Thomas Bernhard book Woodcutters

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