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n. (plural of woodcutter English)
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Woodcutters ( German title: Holzfällen) is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, also published in 1985 in another English translation (by Ewald Osers) under the title Cutting Timber: An Irritation, and originally published in German in 1984.
Second in a trilogy covering the Arts, this one relates to the theatre and created quite an uproar in Austria, where it was banned as some Viennese personalities recognised themselves in the story. Nonetheless, it still sold very well in its own country and became a bestseller abroad.
In his Western Canon of 1994, American literary critic Harold Bloom lists Woodcutters as Bernhard’s masterpiece.
Usage examples of "woodcutters".
Anwyll reported some stablelads and pigkeepers had come and gone, various of the Guard, and their stablehands, the quartermaster and his staff, a freeholder or two, and woodcutters, charcoalers, and the considerable number of chief men over orchards and outlying establishments of all sorts belonging to the ducal lands and to various of the town-dwelling lords, besides a miller with a load of flour and a tanner and various others taking out refuse and coming back.
The three young Maratha woodcutters conferred with each other quickly.
The Maratha fishermen and woodcutters who inhabited the dense forest along the coast were isolated, for the most part, from the rest of India.
Which was exactly the way those fishermen and woodcutters liked their rulers.
The other two woodcutters, still waiting twenty yards up the trail, had obviously been ready to bolt into the forest at the first sign of treachery.