{"product_id":"9781939663887-tractatus-logico-suicidalis-on-killing-oneself","title":"Burger Hermann - Tractatus Logico - Suicidalis On Killing Oneself - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Hermann Burger is one of the truly great authors of the German language: a writer of consummate control and range with a singular and haunting worldview. Uwe Sch tte In the tunnel - village of G schenen a man named Hermann Burger has vanished without a trace from his hotel room suspected of suicide. What is found in his room is not a note but a 124 - page manuscript entitled Tractatus Logico - Suicidalis: an exhaustive manifesto comprising 1,046 thanatological aphorisms (or mortologisms ) advocating suicide. This grim science of killing the self studies the predominance of death over life in traumatic experiences such as the breakup of a marriage years of depression the erosion of friendships and the disgrace of impotence but the aphoristic text presents something more complicated than a logical conclusion to life experience. Drawing inspiration from such authors as Wittgenstein Cioran and Bernhard Burger's unsettling work would be published shortly before the author would take his own life. Hermann Burger (1942 89) was a Swiss author critic and professor. Author of four novels and several volumes of essays short fiction and poetry he first achieved fame with his novel Schilten the story of a mad village schoolteacher who teaches his students to prepare for death. At the end of his life he was working on the autobiographical tetralogy Brenner one of the high points of 20th - century German prose. He died by overdose days after the first volume's publication.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Tractatus Logico - Suicidalis On Killing Oneself\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Burger Hermann\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Wakefield Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781939663887\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 208 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 11\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Burger Hermann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49626759070001,"sku":"IN-G-9781939663887","price":17.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781939663887.jpg?v=1724952719","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781939663887-tractatus-logico-suicidalis-on-killing-oneself","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}