by ThomasBernhard (Author)
Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers of pure thought. We witness the gradual breakdown of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct and refine his perceptions until the only logical conclusion is the negation of his own soul.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 009944254X
ISBN 13: 9780099442547
Book Overview: 'Thomas Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction. After Kafka's and Canetti's, his sensibility is one of the most acute, the most capable of exemplary images and gestures, in modern literature.' George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement