Der Untergeher

...account Of An Imagined Relationship Among Three Men--including The Late Piano Virtuoso Glenn Gould, Who Meet In 1953 To Study With Vladimir Horowitz. In The Face Of Gould's Incomparable Genius, His Two Fellow Students Renounce Their Musical Ambition, But In Very Different Ways.--from The English Translation Published In 1996 By The University Of Chicago Press. Thomas Bernhard.