It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie
bedridden. The narrator, named 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--a spiritual
symmetry forged by their shared passion for music, strange sense of
humor, disgust for bourgeois Vienna, and great fear in the face of
death. Part memoir, part fiction, "Wittgenstein's Nephew" is both a
meditation on the artist's struggle to maintain a solid foothold in
a world gone incomprehensibly askew, and a stunning--if not
haunting--eulogy to a real-life friendship.
General
| Imprint: |
Random House
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Vintage International |
| Release date: |
October 2009 |
| First published: |
October 2009 |
| Authors: |
Thomas Bernhard
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| Dimensions: |
203 x 132 x 9mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
99 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4000-7756-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-4000-7756-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781400077564 |
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