Wittgenstein's Nephew: A FriendshipKnopf, 1989 - 99 Seiten 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. |
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... Vienna , I find that I can breathe freely again . On the other hand , after a few days in Vienna I have to flee to Nathal to avoid suffocating in the loathsome Viennese air . Hence , in recent years I have made a habit of switching ...
... Vienna , I find that I can breathe freely again . On the other hand , after a few days in Vienna I have to flee to Nathal to avoid suffocating in the loathsome Viennese air . Hence , in recent years I have made a habit of switching ...
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... Vienna . Basically , like nine tenths of humanity , I always want to be somewhere else , in the place I have just fled from . In recent years this condition has , if anything , become worse : I go to and from Vienna at diminishing ...
... Vienna . Basically , like nine tenths of humanity , I always want to be somewhere else , in the place I have just fled from . In recent years this condition has , if anything , become worse : I go to and from Vienna at diminishing ...
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... Vienna , between Venice and Vienna , even be- tween Rome and Vienna . I am the happiest traveler- when I am on the move , moving on or moving off - but the unhappiest arriver . Clearly this is a morbid condition . We shared another ...
... Vienna , between Venice and Vienna , even be- tween Rome and Vienna . I am the happiest traveler- when I am on the move , moving on or moving off - but the unhappiest arriver . Clearly this is a morbid condition . We shared another ...
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