Le desarroi de l'eleve Wittgenstein...

Le desarroi de l'eleve Wittgenstein. Antoine Billot. Paris: Gallimard, "L'un et l'autre," 2002 214 pp Euro 1990

Brought up in a Viennese Jewish family, surpassingly rich and somewhat barmy, building a sewing machine in his young years, developing a passion for kites and plane motors, and a taste for solitude, studying in Cambridge, giving his fortune away, becoming a place of education teacher for a while, then a gardener in a monastery, then architect in Vienna before returning to Cambridge and flying to Norway, serving as a stretcher bearer in a London hospital in 1941 Cambridge