Loser

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The Loser is a tag Glenn gives Wertheimer on the first day of their meeting. But I could not help but wonder why Wertheimer was a loser in his suicide and Glenn was not, in his exile? Or for that matter, our narrator, in his directionless transit? I la—u—gghh- hahaha..like crazy.. *Voices in my head*: “Stop this nonsense and start the bloody Review.” The Loser is one long, disoriented, languid musings by an unnamed narrator, who was a fellow student with Gould and Wertheimer at a class taught by Vladimir Horowitz. He recalls in a schizophrenic fashion (he used I Thought, I said I thought and I said to myself n no. of times so that’s schizophrenic for me) about the relationships of 3 of them and how the Genius of Gould affected both of them after they heard him playing Piano. If piano playing was a metaphorical place of Worship, then Gould became a kind of God for them from that day on and everything he did henceforth had catastrophic consequences especially for Wertheimer. So Loser is basically about Donald Zinkoff, which is an exceptional and special kid. Since he was young, Zinkoff has already been showing signs that he is unique. He is unlike any other kid. He enjoys going to school, with the kind of excitement to compel him to go early to school. He enjoys learning and discovering things. He likes involving himself in wide array of activities. Zinkoff is like a ball of energy, and there is no way that he could be stopped in his conquest to explore the world.

Quello che è doloroso, è riconoscersi in certi atteggiamenti e modi di essere del soccombente. Come al solito Bernhard affonda il coltello senza timore di esagerare. Ma è proprio questa sua esagerazione che, spingendo le sue affermazioni fino all’antinomia e raggiungendo effetti grotteschi, riesce a salvarlo e salva il lettore, con più di un sorriso o risata liberatoria. We find he grows to care for a little girl named Claudia, who is what? Three, four? Whose parents use a leash on?Y Gould? El virtuoso, el intérprete que maravilla al mundo, no corre mejor suerte: obsesionado con la idea de ser un mero vehículo entre Bach y el piano, su don le tortura tanto como a sus dos compañeros de estudios. Questo sdoppiamento di prospettiva concede un po’ d’aria a una scrittura e a temi che tendono all’asfittico. Again and again we picture ourselves sitting together with the people we feel drawn to all our lives, precisely these so-called simple people, whom naturally we imagine much differently from the way they truly are, for if we actually sit down with them we see that they aren't the way we've pictured them and that we absolutely don't belong with them, as we've talked ourselves into believing, and we get rejected at their table and in their midst as we logically should get after sitting down at their table and believing we should get after sitting down at their table and believing we belonged with them or could sit with them for even the shortest time without being punished, which is the biggest mistake, I thought." El malogrado es un monólogo interior obsesivo, caótico y en ocasiones agotador. Al ser mi primer Bernhard me ha costado un poco entrar en la novela, pero pronto he quedado atrapada en ese discurso repetitivo y atormentado, que poco a poco te va envolviendo en los odios y obsesiones del narrador, que vuelve una y otra vez a las mismas ideas, incluso a las mismas frases y expresiones.

All my tendencies are deadly ones, he once said to me, everything in me has a deadly tendency to it, it's in my genes, as Wertheimer said, I thought. He always read books that were obsessed with suicide, with disease and death, I thought while standing in the inn, books that described human misery, the hopeless, meaningless, senseless world in which everything is always devastating and deadly. That's why he especially loved Dostoevsky and all his disciples, Russian literature in general, because it actually is a deadly literature, but also the depressing French philosophers.” Aunque Bernhard utiliza la repetición de expresiones de un modo rítmico en todas sus obras, en El malogrado este recurso cobra una dimensión especial; en cierto sentido está haciendo con la escritura lo mismo que hizo Bach con la música en las Variaciones Goldberg: toma un tema sencillo y lo repite una y otra vez cambiando algo en cada ocasión. From renowned Newbery-winning author Jerry Spinelli comes a powerful story about how not fitting in just might lead to an incredible life. This classic book is perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Carl Hiaasen.One day there is a massive snowstorm that blankets his town. At the same time, a little girl named Claudia goes missing. Zinkoff goes off on his own in search of her, looking in the dark alleys behind her home. Searching for more than seven hours, Zinkoff experiences hallucinations, falling asleep on his feet. He braves falling temperatures and almost dies of exposure to the cold, but remains fixated on finding the little girl. Eventually he is rescued and brought home. After sleeping for thirteen hours, Zinkoff finds out that Claudia was found not long after she went missing; she had merely wandered into a neighbor's garage. Zinkoff wonders why he saw the police and emergency vehicle lights still illuminated. His mother tells him they were looking for him. O Glenn Gould, o nosso amigo e o mais importante virtuoso do piano do século, também só fez 51 anos, pensava eu ao entrar na estalagem. Loser is slightly better than Schooled in that the teasing is not as obvivous and Don is written to be that clueless. However it is hard to be in sympathy with such a clueless character. The action of the plot is also more believeable. Jim Smith is the keelest kids’ book author in the whole wide world amen. He graduated from art school with first class honours (the best you can get) and went on to create the branding for a sweet little chain of coffee shops. He also designs cards and gifts under the name Waldo Pancake. Donde no encontraremos complicación es en la trama, ya que en realidad no es más que una excusa para encajar una digresión tras otra. El narrador viaja a una aldea suiza para acudir al entierro de su amigo Wertheimer, que se ha suicidado. Ambos estudiaron piano en el Mozarteum, en Salzburgo, junto a Glen Gould (un Glen Gould de ficción, aunque muy parecido al real). Pese a ser pianistas notables ambos, la comparación con el genio de Gould arruina sus carreras: el día en que lo escuchan interpretar las Variaciones Goldberg mueren sus aspiraciones y, desde entonces, cada uno de una manera diferente, viven a la sombra del virtuosismo de Gould. ¿Qué sentido tiene continuar después de vislumbrar en qué consiste el auténtico genio?

The story began well, concisely drawing an unshapely circle around its characters as if a hand was either shivering or consciously teasing during the entwining exercise. Then, a solid tangent was drawn from a vantage point in the book, where all the characters had rushed in to create the richest pool of their natural shades - a point where Glenn had donned the recluse's garb, Wertheimer had submerged in pools of pungent losses and our narrator had mastered the oscillations between insipid and not-so-insipid days. On this tangential thought, I rejoiced and braced myself for a ride of a lifetime. I’ve never minded that my name’s Barry Loser because my coolness has always cancelled it out, but ever since Darren Darrenofski joined school with his horrible little crocodile face he’s been completely ruining my life about it.’ The musical genius of Glenn Gould, the pinnacle of art, is what serves as the reference defining all three of their lives. Werthemier - the titular Loser - finds himself woefully dwarfed by the perfection of Gould as a piano artist. The frustration of recognizing his worthlessness and knowing that he will never be able to reach the top leads him to give up his piano career. And this failure haunts him for the rest of his life. In his bitter obsession, he gradually advances on a path of self-destruction. The manner in which he commits suicide comes as a last-ditch effort to do something on his own terms, a desperate act of rebel against his life of failure.Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services.