Wittgenstein’s Nephew (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Bernhard
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: Vienna
- Principal Characters: Paul Wittgenstein
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Culture, 1960’s, Mental illness, Cancer, Death or dying, Drama or dramatists, Austria or Austrians, Automobiles, Racing, Opera, operas, or operettas
- Locales: Vienna, Austria
The late Thomas Bernhard’s view of life as farce, which comes out in his plays and novels as well as his autobiography Gathering Evidence (1986), seems the result of artistic temperament coupled with the painful burdens imposed by a chronically diseased body. That everything is against a person from the beginning and that only two options exist—suicide or incessant rebellion—a reader is more easily convinced of when preached to by the likes of Bernhard. His illnesses, particularly tuberculosis, forced him regularly away from his writing table for the company of terminally...
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