Wittgenstein's Nephew

Author

Thomas Bernhard

Original Work

Wittgenstein's Nephew

Translator

Ewald Osers

Language

English

Year

1986

Publisher

Quartet

Country

United Kingdom

Pages

99

ISBN

9780394563763

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Wittgenstein's Nephew (1982) opens in 1967 as 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. Bernhard traces the growth of an intense friendship between two eccentric, obsessive men who share a passion for music, a strange sense of humor, brutal honesty, and a disgust for bourgeois Vienna. As their once-casual friendship quickens, these eccentric men begin to see in each other a possible antidote to their feelings of hopelessness and mortality, on the unexpected strength of what they hold in common.— Google Books