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Wittgenstein's Nephew 

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Thomas BernhardWittgenstein's Nephew (1986)
A novel by Thomas Bernhard

 
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 mortality - 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, Wittgenstein's Nephew is both a meditation on the artist's struggle to maintain a solid foothold in a world gone incomprehensibly askew, and a stunning - if not haunting - eulogy to a real-life friendship.

 
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Hardback Editions

January 1989 : Hardback
Title: Wittgenstein's Nephew
Author(s): Thomas Bernhard
ISBN: 0-394-56376-X / 978-0-394-56376-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Knopf
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February 1987 : Hardback
Title: Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship
Author(s): Thomas Bernhard
ISBN: 0-7043-2611-6 / 978-0-7043-2611-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: Quartet Books
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1986 : Hardback
Title: Wittgenstein's Nephew
Author(s): Thomas Bernhard
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Paperback Editions

October 2012 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0571288413Title: Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship
Author(s): Thomas Bernhard
ISBN: 0-571-28841-3 / 978-0-571-28841-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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October 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1400077567Title: Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Novel (Vintage International)
Author(s): Thomas Bernhard
ISBN: 1-4000-7756-7 / 978-1-4000-7756-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage
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October 1992 : Paperback
Title: Wittgenstein's Nephew
Author(s): Thomas Bernhard
ISBN: 0-09-976270-6 / 978-0-09-976270-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: Vintage
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February 1990 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0226043924Title: Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship (Phoenix Fiction)
Author(s): Thomas Bernhard
ISBN: 0-226-04392-4 / 978-0-226-04392-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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2009 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B003ETNP7YTitle: Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Novel (Vintage International) (Paperback)
Author(s): Thomas Bernhard (Author)
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