In “Friendship with Wittgenstein’s Nephew,” which is considered the sweetest and most humanly warm of all that Bernhard wrote, the writer talks about his relationship with Powell, the nephew of the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the bonds of friendship that had united the two when the writer was being treated in a sanatorium for lung diseases. , while Powell was an inmate just steps away from him in a mental hospital.
In an endless narrative breath, the Austrian writer describes the last years of his friend's life, which also reflects part of Thomas Bernhard's autobiography, and his reflections on life and death, literature and art, reason and madness.
