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Glenn Gould as George Washington
maybe?
Just kidding. I happen to be re-reading the
Loser for the first time in a few years and am enjoying it more, I think,
than I did the first time.
There's an excellent afterward to the novel written
by a Bernhard scholar annotating some of the difference between Gould the real
person and
the representation of him in the novel. It's
made clear in the afterward that the Gould character actually takes on some of
the history/characteristics
of the *real* Bernhard. Talk about
conflation.
Good novel, though clearly it doesn't have much to
do with Gould.
Anyone know if Horowitz ever taught in
Salzburg?
By the way, it's also said in the afterward that
Bernhard was living in Salzburg when Gould gave a concert
there, so it's possible that he did hear Gould play
the Goldbergs.
Jim
Ps: for those of you that may not know, the Loser
in the title refers not to Gould, not the un-named narrator of the novel, but a
third person, a friend of the narrator, whose confidence as a pianist is ruined
after hearing Gould play.
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