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The Wittgenstein House: A Family at War

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The Wittgenstein House: A Family at War
19.99 €
"The House of Wittgenstein" is a saga about the fate of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family, from which came both the famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-armed pianist. It was one of the wealthiest, most talented and eccentric families in European history. A fanatical love of music united the Wittgensteins, but money, madness and the vicissitudes of two world wars sowed discord. Of their eight children, three committed suicide; Paul lost an arm in the war but persevered in his vocation as a musician; and Ludwig, the geeky youngest son, is now known as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Alexander Waugh, himself from an illustrious and eccentric family and author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, unfolds the bizarre canvas of the Wittgenstein story with a vividness and depth comparable to Thomas Mann's Buddenbrokes.

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