Goethe DiesThis collection of four stories is, as long time fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subjects of the stories vary: in one, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus; 'Montaigne: A Story in Twenty Two Instalments' tells of a young man sealing himself in a tower to read; 'Reunion', meanwhile, satirises that very impulse to escape. The final story rounds out the collection by