Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship by Bernhard, Thomas

Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400077564)

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Format: Paperback
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Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship by Bernhard, Thomas

Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship

$15.00
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship by Bernhard, Thomas

Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Thomas Bernhard
ISBN-10: 1400077567
ISBN-13: 9781400077564
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2009
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.18w x 0.36d
By Thomas Bernhard
By Thomas Bernhard
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Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 and grew up in Austria. He studied music at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1957 he began a second career, as a playwright, poet, and novelist. The winner of the three most distinguished and coveted literary prizes awarded in Germany, he has become one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation. He published nine novels, an autobiography, one volume of poetry, four collections of short stories, and six volumes of plays. Thomas Bernhard died in Austria in 1989.

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