YOUNG WITTGENSTEIN: Review

THE novel's title comes from a passage in the ''Tractatus'' (''If I wrote a book called The World As I Found It, I should have to include a report on my body'') that concludes with the difficult statement that such a book would be ''a method of...

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Published in:The New York times 1987
Main Authors: University., PERRY MEISEL, Perry Meisel, the author of ''The Myth of the Modern,'' is a professor of English at New York
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Duffy, Bruce
MEISEL, PERRY
Moore, G E
Russell, Bertrand
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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Summary:THE novel's title comes from a passage in the ''Tractatus'' (''If I wrote a book called The World As I Found It, I should have to include a report on my body'') that concludes with the difficult statement that such a book would be ''a method of isolating the subject, or rather of showing that in an important sense there is no subject.'' Mr. [Bruce Duffy] exemplifies [Ludwig Wittgenstein]'s point both by apprehending him within a matrix of social contexts, and by dramatizing the elusiveness of subjectivity in the dream of a world he fashions with a prose that aspires to a combination of visionary expansiveness and postmodern terseness.
ISSN:0362-4331