The World as I Found It (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Duffy, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590173600 ISBN 13: 9781590173602

Verlag: NYRB Classics, 2010

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"The World As I Found It is both thought-provoking and hard to put down--a good read. It should be fascinating not only to Wittgenstein buffs, but to anyone who is curious about the ways philosophy and life both arise from each other and wage war on each other."
--Vicki Hearne

"Bruce Duffy's novel The World As I Found It, published in 1987, was one of the more astonishing literary debuts in recent memory. In defiance of common practice, Mr. Duffy gave the world not a tender, autobiographical coming-of-age story or a slim collection of finely wrought tales of family dysfunction but more than 500 pages of dazzling language and dizzying speculation on the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein." --A.O. Scott, The New York Times

"A novel constructed out of the lives, thoughts, appetites, egos, the very toenails and pocketwatches of Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G.E. Moore...astonishing." --Los Angeles Times

"Duffy has sustained a miracle. A rich, eloquent, poised masterwork that succeeds beyond one's most generous expectations." --Philadelphia Inquirer

"By turns wicked, melancholy, and rhapsodic, The World As I Found It is an astonishing performance, a kind of intellectual opera in which each abstraction gets its own artist." --Newsday

"It is hard to know which is the more outsized--the talent of Bruce Duffy or his nerve. Duffy is a superb writer." --Los Angeles Times

"Bruce Duffy's dazzling first novel, The World As I Found It blends fact and fiction in a story based on the unlikely figure of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and his idiosyncratic quest for meaning in what he saw as the 20th century's chamber of horrors." --United Press International, November 1988

"Bruce Duffy... turned Wittgenstein's life into fresh, intelligent fiction." --Caryn James, The New York Times.

"Stunning, bold first novel very loosely based on the erratic career of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein...Duffy has concocted letters, rearranged biography, toyed with language and philosophy, and come up with an idiosyncratic tale that, line after line, crackles with sharp wit. A spectacular first showing." --Kirkus

"This brilliant fiction could be mistaken for a racy biography of Wittgenstein, although it is only a broadly accurate account of the man. Duffy writes as memorably about sex and trench warfare as about philosophy." --Austin MacCurtain, The Sunday Times (London)

"Bruce Duffy's superb novel The World As I Found It, based on the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein, another seminal modern figure whose sexual life is handled circumspectly and who is also a guilt-ridden participant in the Great War." --Leslie Epstein, The New York Times

A 'sweeping arrangement of fact and fancy' about the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein." --George Johnson, The New York Times

"Abundant with life and almost unflaggingly interesting...The enigmatic Wittgenstein could imagine the unimaginable, but never would he have imagined it possible that he would one day appear as the protagonist of a novel and a delightful one, at that." --Publishers Weekly

"...readers who like a broad canvas will find this work appealing, moving as it does from uppercrust Vienna to pre-war Cambridge to the battlefields of World War I and World War II...compelling." --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

Reseña del editor:

Vienna, 1900. The trenches of World War I and the dark slide into Nazi Europe. The intellectual lights of Cambridge University and the nabobs on the outskirts of Bloomsbury. Marriage and domestic life. These are just a few of the worlds the reader enters in this exhilarating novel of ideas, romance, and imagination. Irreverently trespassing on the turf of history, biography, and philosophy, The World as I Found It is the tale of three wildly different men adrift in the twentieth century. At the center is Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most magnetic philosophers of our time: brilliant, tortured, mercurial, forging his own solitary path while leaving a permanent mark-and sometimes a scar-on lives all around him. Playing in counterpoint are Wittgenstein's two reluctant mentors: Bertrand Russell, past his philosophical prime yet eager to break new ground as a public intellectual, educational theorist, and sexual adventurer; and G. E. Moore, the great Cambridge don who exercised such an influence on E. M. Forster and who was devoted to the pleasures of the table and pure thought until, late in life, he discovered real fulfillment in marriage and fatherhood. By turns history, biography, and philosophy, The World as I Found It is the tale of three wildly different men adrift in the twentieth century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore. Rich in humor and tragedy, lust and violence, spirit and striving, this is a novel that will enthrall any reader.

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• Verlag: NYRB Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1590173600
• ISBN 13: 9781590173602
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 592