99 pages
English language
Published July 15, 1990 by University of Chicago Press.
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Wittgenstein’s Nephew is an autobiographical work by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in 1982. It is a recollection of the author's friendship with Paul Wittgenstein, the nephew of Ludwig Wittgenstein and a member of the wealthy Viennese Wittgenstein family. Paul suffers from an unnamed mental illness for which he is repeatedly hospitalized, paralleling Bernhard's own struggle with a chronic lung disease.
Subjects
- Bernhard, Thomas -- Fiction.
- Wittgenstein, Paul, 1907- -- Fiction.
- Authors -- Fiction.
- Philosophers -- Fiction.
- Germany -- Fiction.
- Austria -- Fiction.