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.
Khalifa Al-Khader, winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press 2017, writes some scenes of fear in the details of his experience in ISIS prisons in the city of Al-Bab, his escape from prison, and his subsequent return to it of his own free will after ISIS was expelled from the city.
Khalifa does not tell us about ISIS from the outside. He lived in the belly of the ghoul, and went out to narrate some of what he saw, heard, and lived...
