La amante de Wittgenstein

A woman named Kate lives alone in a house on the beach and types an avalanche of memories and reflections although no one will read them, convinced as she is that she is the last human being on the face of the earth. She knows it for sure, because she has not found a soul despite having traveled the entire world, taking refuge in the National Gallery, the Metropolitan or the Louvre, where she burned antiques and picture frames to withstand the cold in winter. Thus, revisiting the milestones of Western culture -from the Odyssey to Picasso, from Leonardo da Vinci to Brahms, from Shakespeare to Wittgenstein-, threading one theme with another, the deep fractures of Kate's mind begin to appear here and there, and the narrative is then revealed in all its bitter and poignant beauty. In that dance between what is said and what is not said, this masterful, ambitious and poetic novel moves that David Foster Wallace pointed out as one of his favorite works. Beyond his undeniable wit, beyond his humor, his irony and his virtuosity, Wittgenstein's Mistress is ultimately a powerful reflection on memory, language, isolation, madness and the most heartbreaking loneliness.