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Wittgenstein’s Nephew

Thomas Bernhard

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Jun 08, 2009 Patty rated it did not like it

I really disliked this book. It was like being at a cocktail party and getting stuck talking to someone who is really really really smug and self-satisfied, mainly because they know someone who was related to someone, and then just keeps emphatically insisting that the person they knew was just so terribly interesting and crazy and really emphatically interesting, and how terribly much they had in common with each other, but doesn't even give one single interesting story or description. And then ...more

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Oct 05, 2010 Daisy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: vienna, asylum, classical-music, aroundtheworld2013

I know someone who has read this five or six times. It's her favorite book.
It could be a celebration of unprejudiced, accepting friendship or a eulogy or a purging of guilt. It deals with sickness, euphoria, aging, city vs, country, society, money, poverty, music, theater, motor racing... The respect Thomas and Paul have for each other, the progress of their friendship, their own parallels, their respective places in society and in their families, that's the main stuff of this book.
For me, I am ...more

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