Wittgenstein Jr.
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Melville House UK
Published:15th Oct '15
Should be back in stock very soon
Wittgenstein Jr. is the nickname Peters and his gang of fellow Philosophy undergrads give to their lecturer; a brooding, complicated, melancholic academic who is determined to make them grasp the very essence of philosophical thought. But the students are too busy getting drunk on lethal homemade cocktails, falling in and out of love, and coming to terms with the life waiting for them after Cambridge. As Wittgenstein Jr. becomes more withdrawn and depressive, the students come to realise how much he needs them.
'Fascinating... A doomy, hilarious, thoughtful Cambridge comedy with a tone somewhere between Philosophical Investigations and Porterhouse Blue, as a bunch of dreadful modern undergrads struggle to make sense of a tragic, saintlike tutor who is not Wittgenstein, or not exactly.' Sunday Telegraph
- Long-listed for Folio Prize 2015
- Long-listed for Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2015
ISBN: 9780992876555
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 225g
232 pages
UK ed.