De adem : een besluit

Fourth part of Bernhard's memoirs of his youth, covering the winter and spring of 1949 — the months around his 18th birthday — which he spent in a Salzburg hospital and then a convalescent home in a village outside Salzburg, being treated for pleurisy. The writing is superb, and his description

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of the time he spent in a nightmarish ward full of old men not expected to recover ("das Sterbezimmer") is one that it won't be easy to forget in a hurry.

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