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Rage, Rage Against Almost Everything

Francis King EXTINCTION by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McLintock Quartet, £16, pp. 335 Af ter I had reviewed Thomas Bern- hard's Wittgenstein's Nephew in these pages in......

Hilarious Vision Of Hell

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