“I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself…”
Source: Wittgenstein's Nephew
Quotes from book
Wittgenstein's Nephew
Thomas Bernhard
Original title
Wittgensteins Neffe
(German, 1982)
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.
