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Somewhat surprisingly, Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser is one of NPR’s ‘You Must Read This’ . Claire Messud (“She has commented, about her current life, ‘Who knew there could be so much poop?’”) picked it.

Then I picked up The Loser, and was not only mesmerized, and horrified, but felt, also, profoundly spoken to: here was a book — a ranting monologue, more naturally than a novel — obsessing unflinchingly about the things that have always obsessed me. Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ art, and ambition, and failure, and delusion, and death.