Wittgenstein's Mistress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wittgenstein's Mistress write by David Markson. This book was released on 1989. Wittgenstein's Mistress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well that she is the only person left on earth.
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Wittgenstein's Mistress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wittgenstein's Mistress write by David Markson. This book was released on 2012. Wittgenstein's Mistress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Wittgensteins Mistress is the story of a woman who is convinced - and may ultimately convince the reader as well - that she is the only person left on earth. So appealing is her character, and so witty and seductive her narrative voice, we follow her hypnotically as she unloads the intellectual baggage of a lifetime in a series of irreverent meditations on everything from Brahms to sex to Heidegger to Helen of Troy. And as she contemplates aspects of the troubled past that have brought her to her present state, so too will her drama become one of the few certifiably original fictions of our time"--P. [4] of cover.
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Wittgenstein's Mistress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wittgenstein's Mistress write by David Markson. This book was released on 2023-11-14. Wittgenstein's Mistress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing is her character, and so witty and seductive her narrative voice, that we will follow her hypnotically as she unloads the intellectual baggage of a lifetime in a series of irreverent meditations on everything and everybody from Brahms to sex to Heidegger to Helen of Troy. And as she contemplates aspects of the troubled past which have brought her to her present state—obviously a metaphor for ultimate loneliness—so too will her drama become one of the few certifiably original fictions of our time. “The novel I liked best this year,” said the Washington Times upon the book’s publication; “one dizzying, delightful, funny passage after another . . . Wittgenstein’s Mistress gives proof positive that the experimental novel can produce high, pure works of imagination.”
Omensetter's Luck
Omensetter's Luck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Omensetter's Luck write by William H. Gass. This book was released on 1997-04-01. Omensetter's Luck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation." -The New Republic Now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetter's Luck is the masterful first novel by the author of The Tunnel, Middle C, On Being Blue, and Eyes: Novellas and Stories. Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of various participants and observers - the confrontation between Brackett Omensetter, a man of preternatural goodness, and the Reverend Jethro Furber, a preacher crazed with a propensity for violent thoughts. Omensetter's Luck meticulously brings to life a specific time and place as it illuminates timeless questions about life, love, good, and evil. This edition includes an afterword written by William Gass in 1997. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Wittgenstein's Nephew
Wittgenstein's Nephew - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wittgenstein's Nephew write by Thomas Bernhard. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Wittgenstein's Nephew available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of the celebrated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his periodic bouts of madness. As their once-casual friendship quickens, these two eccentric men begin to discover in each other a possible antidote to their feelings of hopelessness and mortality—a spiritual symmetry forged by their shared passion for music, strange sense of humor, disgust for bourgeois Vienna, and great fear in the face of death. Part memoir, part fiction, Wittgenstein’s Nephew is both a meditation on the artist’s struggle to maintain a solid foothold in a world gone incomprehensibly askew, and a stunning—if not haunting—eulogy to a real-life friendship.
