LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH
ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY BEN LERNER, AUTHOR OF THE TOPEKA SCHOOL
'IF YOU HAVEN'T READ BERNHARD, YOU WILL NOT KNOW OF THE MOST RADICAL
ADVANCE IN FICTION SINCE JOYCE ... MY ADVICE: DIVE IN.' LUCY ELLMANN
'I ABSOLUTELY LOVE BERNHARD: HE IS ONE OF THE DARKEST AND FUNNIEST
WRITERS ... A MUST READ FOR EVERYBODY.' KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD
It is 1967. 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 friendship
quickens, these two eccentric men discover in each other an antidote
to their feelings of despair on the unexpected strength of what they
share - a spiritual symmetry forged by their love of music, black
humour, disgust for bourgeois Vienna, and fear of mortality.
A restless blend of fiction and memoir, _WITTGENSTEIN'S NEPHEW_ is not
only a haunting meditation on the artist's struggle to maintain a
foothold on reality, but an impassioned eulogy to a real-life
friendship - newly illuminated by BEN LERNER'S AFTERWORD.
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ISBN
9780571355808
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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