It takes the average reader 1 hour and 42 minutes to read Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
It is 1967, in a Viennese hospital. In separate wards: the narrator named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering fom one of his periodic bouts of madness. Bernhard traces the growth of an intense friendship between two eccentric, obsessive men who share a passion for music, a strange sense of humor, brutal honesty, and a disgust for bourgeois Vienna. "[Wittgenstein's Nephew is] a meditative fugue for mad, brilliant voices on the themes of death, death-in-life and the artist's and thinker's role in society . . . oddly...
Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard is 99 pages long, and a total of 25,641 words.
This makes it 33% the length of the average book. It also has 31% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 20 minutes to read Wittgenstein's Nephew aloud.
Wittgenstein's Nephew is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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