by Thomas Bernhard · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475960340
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«El nebot de Wittgenstein. Una amistat» is the novel by Thomas Bernhard, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (112 pages, in Catalan).
The book recalls the friendship between the narrator and Paul Wittgenstein, nephew of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, an eccentric, music-loving character of disconcerting and naive lucidity. Bernhard portrays his friend and, with his usual irony, attacks Austrian cultural and political life, with flashes of tenderness uncommon in his work.
Written in 1982 and originally published as «Wittgensteins Neffe», the book appeared in Catalan in 1985 in a translation by Josep Murgades, as number 2 of the Tros de paper collection.
A work for readers of contemporary European fiction interested in social criticism and in the figure of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive prose style often featuring multiple perspectives on characters and events, idiosyncratic vocabulary and punctuation, and long monologues by protagonists on the verge of insanity.
