Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists.

Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more pervasive than other equally renowned twentieth century philosophers and asks why some authors such as Handler and Roubaud, are less well-known and only partially translated into...

A city with deteriorating houses. A pristine house seemingly without inhabitants. Inhabitants of a world no longer human. In a remarkable collection of stories, Ernst-Wilhelm Handler conducts us into a world where nothing is quite as we know it, or quite what we might expect. In these stories, Handler creates a series of possible worlds, some resembling those we experience on an regular basis, some existing in startling opposition to everyday life. Among them: Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall; Austria during World War II; a dystopia of a dyslexic matriarchal society; and a...

Analysing feature of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists.