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  Originally published in Germany in 1984

  by Suhrkamp Verlag as Holzfällen: Eine Erregung

  First published in the US in 1987

  by Alfred A. Knopf Inc.

  First published in the UK in 2011

  by Faber and Faber Ltd

  Bloomsbury House

  74–77 Great Russell Street

  London WC1B 3DA

  This ebook edition first published in 2011

  All rights reserved

  © Thomas Bernhard, 1984

  Translation © David McLintock, 1987

  The right of Thomas Bernhard to be identified as author of this work and of David McClintock to be identified as its translator has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

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  ISBN 978–0–571–27610–3