Bernhard and Wittgenstein: Perfection, Suicide, Love with Steve Dowden and Bryan Counter

Steve Dowden is a Professor of German language and literature in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures. He graduated in 1984 from the University of California with a Ph.D in German literature. After a decade teaching at Yale and a year as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Konstanz he joined the Brandeis faculty in 1994. Dowden has published on German literature, art, music, and intellectual history from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Bryan Counter completed his PhD in Comparative Literature at SUNY Buffalo and teaches in the English departments at Western New England University and Framingham State University.In this episode we discuss Thomas Bernhard's novels 'Correction' and 'Wittgenstein's Nephew'.--- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

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This episode was published on Apr 15, 2026.

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