Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Novel (Vintage International)

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Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Novel (Vintage International)

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 mortalityâ€”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, Wittgensteinâ€™s Nephew is both a meditation on the artistâ€™s struggle to maintain a solid foothold in a world gone incomprehensibly askew, and a stunningâ€”if not hauntingâ€”eulogy to a real-life friendship.

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