Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship (Phoenix Fiction)
病院の別棟で寝たきりの二人の再会を軸に、語り手とポール・ヴィトゲンシュタインとの友情をたどる自伝的散文。音楽への情熱、病、孤独が、鋭いユーモアとともに描かれる。
作品情報
病院の静けさの中で、友情は記憶と独白を通して立ち上がる。
『ヴィトゲンシュタインの甥』は、1967 年のウィーンを舞台に、作者自身とポール・ヴィトゲンシュタインの友情を回想する。自伝とフィクションの境界をまたぎながら、病院の記憶、音楽、死生観を濃密に描く。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Univ of Chicago Pr
- 発売日
- 1989-12-01
- ページ数
- 108ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.97 x 1.27 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780226043920
- ISBN-10
- 0226043924
- 価格
- 6443 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
It is 1967, in a Viennese hospital. In separate wards: the narrator named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering fom 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. "[ Wittgenstein's Nephew is] a meditative fugue for mad, brilliant voices on the themes of death, death-in-life and the artist's and thinker's role in society . . . oddly moving and funny at the same time."--Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune "Mr. Bernhard's memoir about Paul Wittgenstein is a 'confession and a guilty homage to their friendship; it takes the place of the graveside speech he never delivered. In its obsessive, elegant rhythms and narrative eloquence, it resembles a tragic aria by Richard Strauss. . . . This is a memento mori that approaches genius.'"--Richard Locke, Wall Street Journal
レビュー
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overrated
On the edge of being boring. The beginning was most promising but then developed into a dull and depressing soliloquy. The observations I found commonplace without one surprising perspective on life. Disappointing.
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Short words
Great book for insight into the mentally unstable and their closest friends.
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chewy read, and a lot to learn - personalisaton ...
chewy read, and a lot to learn - personalisaton of the characters really well done - reads in an idiosyncratic way Bernard made his own - a form of writing that is Austrian to its core.literary and valuable.
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I wonderful, easy-to-read book written in Bernhard's usual one paragraph ...
Quite simply a book about friendship and art. But as usual Thomas Bernhard uses it as a vehicle for illumination. Of all the writers that I have recently read Thomas Bernhard hits the spot more times than not. This is a book that I will come back to again and again I can see. I wonderful, easy-to-read book written in Bernhard's usual one paragraph style.
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READ IT.
Possibly a life-changing book, a great introduction to a difficult and rewarding author, master.
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