"There's very little peace to be found within the minds of the characters of Austrian author Bernhard's celebrated philosophical novella Walking. It's not the easiest of reads–an account of the conversations between the unnamed narrator and his friend and walking companion Oehler, the two men's discussion inevitably drawn back to that of the fate of a mutual friend of theirs, Karrer, who recently went mad and is now in an asylum–but there's an absurd humour lurking between the lines."–Lucy Scholes "Independent (UK)"