Concrete
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Correction
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Gargoyles
by Thomas Bernhard | 
The Lime Works
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Yes
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Woodcutters
by Thomas Bernhard | 
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
by Peter Handke | 
Frost
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Old Masters
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Extinction
by Thomas Bernhard | 
The Last World
by Christoph Ransmayr | 
The Demons
by Heimito von Doderer | 
Hotel Savoy
by Joseph Roth |
The Confusions of Young Torless
by Robert Musil | 
Repetition
by Peter Handke | 
Weights and Measures
by Joseph Roth |
The Spider's Web
by Joseph Roth | 
Malina
by Ingeborg Bachmann | 
Job
by Joseph Roth | 
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House
by Peter Handke |
It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of the celebrated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his periodic bouts of madness. As their once-casual friendship quickens, these two eccentric men begin to discover in each other a possible antidote to their feelings of hopelessness and mortality -- a spiritual symmetry forged by their shared passion for music, a strange sense of humor, disgust for bourgeois Vienna, and fear in the face of death. Part memoir, part fiction, Wittgenstein's Nephew is both a meditation on the artist's struggle to maintain a solid foothold in a world gone incomprehensibly askew, and an eulogy to a real-life friendship.