By Thomas Bernhard
ISBN-10: 039456376X
ISBN-13: 9780394563763
Translated from the German through David McLintock
I am uncertain why Thomas Bernhard is so good represented in this website! i'm guessing there has been a movie produced from one in every of his books or anything. Oh good, there's a asserting approximately taking a look a present horse within the mouth that could apply.
I consider this would definitely be at the website if a retail model used to be to be had. i'm hoping it is a welcomed add until eventually people's most well liked structure appears.
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An Amazon Description:
It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese health facility, males lie bedridden. The narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is with a lung illness; his buddy Paul, nephew of the prestigious thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, is being affected by one in every of his periodic bouts of insanity. As their once-casual friendship speeds up, those eccentric males start to become aware of in one another a potential antidote to their emotions of hopelessness and mortality—a non secular symmetry solid by way of their shared ardour for tune, unusual humorousness, disgust for bourgeois Vienna, and nice worry within the face of loss of life. half memoir, half fiction, Wittgenstein’s Nephew is either a meditation at the artist’s fight to take care of a superior foothold in an international long gone incomprehensibly askew, and a stunning—if no longer haunting—eulogy to a real-life friendship.
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Thomas Bernhard is a Georg Buchner Prize recipient. For these trying to find an elevated publicity to German-language literature, i might hugely suggest taking a look into the colleciton I made from the recipients. The authors are consultant of the simplest German writers; a number of have long gone directly to win the Nobel Prize, in addition to different literary awards.
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Y et whereas our respective insti tutions had always been far apart, in 1967 we suddenly came together on the Wilhelminenberg, and it was there that our friendship deepened. Had we not ended up on the Wilhelminenberg in 1967, there might have been no such deepening of our friendship. Having abstained from friend ship for many years, I suddenly found myself with a real friend, who understood even the maddest escapades of my far from simple and indeed quite complex mind, and was prepared to become involved in them— something that the others around me were never willing to do, because they lacked the capacity.
He never ceased to throw it out of the window, yet it never ceased to grow; the more he threw it out of the window, the more it grew. It is characteristic of people like Paul, who are at first merely crazy and are finally pronounced insane, that their intellectual fortune increases as fast as they throw it out of the window (of the mind). As they throw more and more of it out of the window, it goes on building up in the mind and naturally becomes more and more dangerous. Eventually they cannot keep up the pace, with the result that the mind can no longer endure the buildup and finally explodes.
I and various other friends often took him out for a drink— to take him out of himself, as they say— but without success. Once or twice he himself invited me and my friends to the Sacher and ordered champagne, as in the old days, but this only deepened his depression. In their last years together, when he was not in Steinhof or in the Wagner-Jauregg Hospital (Wagner-Jauregg, after whom this psychiatric hospital was named, had been a relative of his), he and Edith often went to Traunkirchen. Now he went there alone, but the effect was devastating.
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