Wittgenstein's nephew : a friendship
Bernhard, Thomas2019
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'Furious, obsessive, scathing, absolutely hilarious and oddly beautiful.' - Claire MessudIt is 1967. Two men lie bedridden in separate wings of a Viennese hospital. The narrator, Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his periodic bouts of madness. As their friendship quickens, these two eccentric men discover in each other an antidote to their feelings of despair on the unexpected strength of what they share - a spiritual symmetry forged by their love of music, black humour, disgust for bourgeois Vienna, and fear of mortality. A restless blend of fiction and memoir, Wittgenstein's Nephew is not only a haunting meditation on the artist's struggle to maintain a foothold on reality, but an impassioned eulogy to a real-life friendship.
Main title:
Wittgenstein's nephew : a friendship / Thomas Bernhard ; translated from the German by David McLintock ; with a new afterword by Ben Lerner.
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Edition:
New paperback edition.
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2019.©1988
Collation:
104 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in German as Wittgensteins Neffe" --Title page verso.Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780571349982 (paperback)
Dewey class:
833.914
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
368183
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | BERN | Available |