Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was a tormented Viennese philosopher, who aspired to the truth and beauty, but that the impossibility of reaching those vital standards tormented him all his life, and thus reveals himself in the profuse correspondence he maintained with his numerous brothers for decades. That can discover the reader in The Wittgenstein, a family in lettersa volume edited by Brian Macguinness and Radmila Schweitzer that reveals the extravagant personality of the philosopher, also endowed with a great sense of humor, in addition to the ups and downs that the Wittgenstein family crossed, steel magnates, in the Europe of interwar.
Our book of the week is Tell everythingby Elizabeth Strouth, in which the American writer, author of My name is Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge either The Burges Brothershe recovers characters from those and others of his works to gather a gallery of alienated characters, with difficulty expressing feelings, and remind us that evil exists, but goodness too. “Those who believe they have not suffered lie to themselves,” says Nonagenaria Olive in this new literary balm for attached times of Stout.
Other books reviewed by our experts are Tomorrowthe first novel by the outstanding poet Granadina Olalla Castro; Worshipthe literary debut of Miguel Zamorano, which describes the origins and structures that make up the gender identity and the nature of desire through a homosexual protagonist who aspires to be a writer while building his own personality; and the essay Of democracy in Latin Americaby the director of the RAE, Santiago Muñoz Machado, who has configured a condescending history of Latin America’s political evolution with little knowledge of the recent historiographic contributions, as Jorge Cañizares Esguerra explains in his criticism of this work.
