Kirjahaku

In this new book, Walker Zupp demonstrates the need to reevaluate the connection between Ludwig Wittgenstein?s philosophy and the extraordinary life that he led, and how the best way to do this, ironically, is by examining novels whose central characters were inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein?s persona. In Wittgenstein Fiction, Zupp offers comprehensive biographical cross-sections of novels by Thomas Bernhard, Bruce Duffy and Lars Iyer in an attempt to define the genre of Wittgenstein Fiction for the very first time. He argues that Wittgenstein Fiction satirizes the empirical world and the contemporary university, and that authors who work in this genre have to re-create themselves, to some extent, in the form of their fictional Wittgenstein characters, so that fictional biographies of Wittgenstein become strange autobiographies of the authors themselves. ?

The year is 2089. In an independent Scotland, Constable Harmon Chikenyyt is thrown into a world of drug-dealers and pimps. Their goal is simple: to use and sell as much of the hallucinogenic cannabinoid D.E.R.P. as possible. Suddenly, civil war breaks out in Belgium. The British Parliament decides to intervene with a band of Northern Irish mercenaries. As the civil war escalates, it becomes clear to Tara Blimmen that everything is connected; that each crime committed, whether in Scotland, the halls of Westminster, or Belgium, is a symptom of something far deadlier...In Antarctica, at a research station funded by the bank I.T.C.B. Holdings plc, pharmacologist Norvin Tubani a has been tasked with understanding Martha-if that's even possible."Zupp's bleak vision of the future is, unfortunately, all too convincing, and his darkly comic prose offers perhaps the best means of facing it as a possibility. This is a book for those who love the work of Kurt Vonnegut, early Thomas Pynchon, and David Foster Wallace."- Charlie Gere, Lancaster University"A freewheelingly scabrous, energetic and darkly funny tale, pinpricked with pathos and sympathy, all concealing a strange sort of seriousness. Probably the strangest and most scatologically unbridled book you'll read this year, and that's a recommendation."- George Green, author of Hound and Hawk"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Dr. Strangelove; Zupp is to subversive fictional literature as Salvador Dali is to art in this future-real dissection of a world with characters as secular and loveless as our own. Martha is written with intelligence, wit, and a delightful sprinkling of absurdity for good measure."- K.T. Browne, author of The Strangled Hubris

Twickley, England - when Hiroshi Nakadai is studying for his PhD in Linguistics he comes into contact with a powerful and evil force... His supervisor, Professor Mutton, has been enslaved by The Great Word: an intergalactic beinghell-bent on conquering the world. When Nakadai becomes a professor, he decides to take matters into his own hands. Using his phenomenalintelligence, he decides to fight the Great Word-and confuse the hell out of his PhD student, Nicola, along the way... "By turns brilliant and knowingly absurd."- Stephen Gallagher, author of The Authentic William James. "Kurt Vonnegut meets Ann Quin meets Douglas Adams."- Rob Magnuson Smith, author of Scorper. "Nakadai is strange, erudite and above all, hilarious."- Charlie Gere, Professor of MediaTheory and History at Lancaster University.