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The World as I Found It

The World as I Found It

Duffy, Bruce
Leavitt, David

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1590173600
ISBN13: 9781590173602
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Oct 12 2010
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.23 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This wicked, melancholy, and . . . astonishing novel reimagines the lives of three wildly different men adrift in the 20th century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore (Newsday).

When Bruce Duffy's The World As I Found It was first published, critics and readers were bowled over by its daring reimagining of the lives of three very different men, the philosophers Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. A brilliant group portrait with the vertiginous displacements of twentieth-century life looming large in the background, Duffy's novel depicts times and places as various as Vienna 1900, the trenches of World War I, Bloomsbury, and the colleges of Cambridge, while the complicated main characters appear not only in thought and dispute but in love and despair. Wittgenstein, a strange, troubled, and troubling man of gnawing contradictions, is at the center of a novel that reminds us that the apparently abstract and formal questions that animate philosophy are nothing less than the intractable matters of life and death.

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