Wittgenstein's Nephew
of Thomas Bernhard, David McLintock (Translator)
Description
It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of the celebrated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his periodic bouts of madness. As their once-casual friendship quickens, these two eccentric men begin to discover in each other a possible antidote to their feelings of hopelessness and mortality â a spiritual symmetry forged by their shared passion for music, a strange sense of humor, disgust for bourgeois Vienna, and fear in the face of death. Part memoir, part fiction, Wittgensteinâs Nephew is both a meditation on the artistâs struggle to maintain a solid foothold in a world gone incomprehensibly askew, and an eulogy to a real-life friendship.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 101 pages
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date February 15th 1990
- First Publication 10/28/82
- Language English
- ISBN 9780226043920
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Vienna (Austria)', 'Austria']
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