Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been hailed by Gabriel Josipovici as
'Austria's finest postwar writer' and by George Steiner as 'one of the
masters of contemporary European fiction.' Faber Finds is proud to
reissue a selection of four of Bernhard's finest novels.
_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. 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.
'Furious, obsessive, scathing, absolutely hilarious and oddly
beautiful.' Claire Messud, _Salon_
'A _memento mori_ that approaches genius.' Richard Locke, _Wall Street
Journal_
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ISBN
9780571288427
Publisert
2015
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Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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