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Donald Trump has wandered into a Thomas Bernhard novel and made vanity great again
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From Daily Maverick · Latest (South Africa)
- The Austrian writer understood the absurdity of human vanity and our endless hunger for recognition.
- Trump’s furious response to the Nobel peace prize could almost have come from one of his novels – except that this time the narrator is the president of the United States of America.
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- 2026-10-12T21:51:44.000Z
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