Reissued with stunning artwork by Leanne Shapton and a new afterword by
Ben Lerner, Wittgenstein's Nephew is a memento mori of restless genius.
It 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Faber and Faber
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
September 2019 |
| Authors: |
Thomas Bernhard
|
| Translators: |
David McLintock
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
112 |
| Edition: |
New Edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-571-34998-2 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-571-34998-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780571349982 |
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