The sale of customised goods or perishable goods, sealed audio or video recordings, or software, which has been opened. Glenn Gould (a fictionalized version, of course) features, withdrawing into himself and somewhere far from society to work on his art – it was great to be prodded into learning about him, watching him perform, listening to his real rendition of Bach’s The Goldberg Variation. It was also surreal to find out more about this man, realizing that he lived near me, withdrew to a cottage not far from me, and died near me – hell, he is buried near me. We all see the world through our lenses, and when world literature collides with my geography, the story seems to be imbued with that much more significance, for no reason other than the fact that I can reach out and touch it. He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be happy if we think about it.”

The setting of my book is school & grades in school I know this because the story takes place in school when he was in different grades during his life.The major events of the book where when he was growing and found out he was different from the other people in his school until he found somebody that was weird like him. Its person vs. person because Zinkoff tries to become friends with other people but they reject him because he's weird and different than everybody else. Weird is the theme because he is very different and weirder than everybody else. A single paragraph. One breathless monologue. Genius. Failure. Perfection. Obsession. Friendship. Death. In most of his fictions—including this novella—the Austrian Thomas Bernhard insults everything Austrian. In fact, Bernhard declared in his will that every one of his literary works in perpetuity must not be printed or presented within the state of Austria, or within the geographical boundaries of the present state of Austria, whatever that area may in the future be called. Yet he never made an attempt to emigrate; he lived in Austria all his life. I want to make sure to include a quote that was one of many that I highlighted – this one was beautiful:Just like other kids, Zinkoff rides his bike, hopes for snow days, and wants to be like his dad when he grows up. But Zinkoff also raises his hand with all the wrong answers, trips over his own feet, and falls down with laughter over a word like "Jabip." This is not intended to be a full statement of all your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations. Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office. I haven’t liked somebody writing like this since Virginia Woolf and Dostoyevsky, truly superb. It is not even that I intellectually agree with everything Bernhard writes (nihilistic, pessimistic and fatalistic fellow readers definitely would enjoy his thinking on the highest level) but it somehow resonates with me and shakes my soul, like a true piece of art that challenges you to see the world differently and wake up from your usual delusions. The musical genius of Glenn Gould, the pinnacle of art, is what serves as the reference defining all three of their lives. Werthemier - the titular Loser - finds himself woefully dwarfed by the perfection of Gould as a piano artist. The frustration of recognizing his worthlessness and knowing that he will never be able to reach the top leads him to give up his piano career. And this failure haunts him for the rest of his life. In his bitter obsession, he gradually advances on a path of self-destruction. The manner in which he commits suicide comes as a last-ditch effort to do something on his own terms, a desperate act of rebel against his life of failure.

The title relates with the book "Loser" because Zinkoff the main character is supposedly a loser because he is different and has no friend do people consider him as a loser because in the text it says "He doesn't know he's not like everybody else"which makes him a loser. The major event of the story was when he finally realized he was not like everybody else so then he tried to change because he didn't have any friends because of his weirdness. Wertheimer non era capace di vedere se stesso come un essere unico al mondo, mentre in effetti è così che ciascuno di noi può e deve concedersi di vedere se stesso se non vuole cadere in balìa della disperazione [...]. Non necessariamente dobbiamo essere dei genii per poter essere e per poterci riconoscere come unici al mondo, pensai”.]

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Again and again we picture ourselves sitting together with the people we feel drawn to all our lives, precisely these so-called simple people, whom naturally we imagine much differently from the way they truly are, for if we actually sit down with them we see that they aren't the way we've pictured them and that we absolutely don't belong with them, as we've talked ourselves into believing, and we get rejected at their table and in their midst as we logically should get after sitting down at their table and believing we should get after sitting down at their table and believing we belonged with them or could sit with them for even the shortest time without being punished, which is the biggest mistake, I thought." This was my third book by Jerry Spenelli, the first ones were Stargirl and Love Stargirl. I had immediately liked the writer in the first two books; his writing style was simple, yet astonishly magical. Jerry Spenelli writes for children and juveniles, actually--his target audience are those in middle grade--yet teenagers, young adults, and adults could totally enjoy reading his books. El segundo es el primero de los perdedores” (Ayrton Senna) y aquel que puede llegar a vivir ese fracaso de la forma más cruel, añado yo. Este es el leitmotiv del libro, o uno de ellos, y recuerda mucho al conflicto Mozart-Salieri de la película Amadeus (aunque el libro es un año anterior a la película para mí es treinta años posterior). So Loser is basically about Donald Zinkoff, which is an exceptional and special kid. Since he was young, Zinkoff has already been showing signs that he is unique. He is unlike any other kid. He enjoys going to school, with the kind of excitement to compel him to go early to school. He enjoys learning and discovering things. He likes involving himself in wide array of activities. Zinkoff is like a ball of energy, and there is no way that he could be stopped in his conquest to explore the world. Es probable que Bernhard fuese alérgico a lo superfluo. Su prosa está completamente desprovista de adornos; sólo lo esencial encuentra sitio en sus páginas. Eso no implica que su estilo sea sencillo. Apenas emplea puntos y aparte (de los cuatro párrafos que tiene el libro, los tres primeros están en la página inicial; el cuatro abarca el resto del texto). Sus frases interminables, laberínticas, llenas de oraciones subordinadas, machacan continuamente una misma idea; un paso hacia adelante, uno hacia atrás. Se repiten casi idénticas, cambiando tan sólo unas pocas palabras, una y otra vez. La reiteración de palabras y expresiones hasta la saturación pueden llegar a exasperar al lector, pero imprimen un ritmo hipnótico al texto, una densidad y un vigor difíciles de imaginar. La prosa de Bernhard es música; una música extraña, reiterativa, obsesiva, contagiosa, pero música, al fin y al cabo.