Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis av Hermann Burger

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<p><strong>¿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</strong></p><p>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 <i>Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis</i>: an exhaustive manifesto comprising 1,046 ¿thanatological¿ aphorisms (or ¿mortologisms¿) advocating suicide.<br>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 publish