Wittgenstein’s philosophy made a well-known project of placing severe limitations on what language is and is not capable of saying, but those authors who took Wittgenstein’s concerns seriously hardly saw his philosophy as a death sentence for literature, but rather as a real and pressing set of problems to which literature could very well lend expression. Spanning three genres, Stoppard’s Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, Bachmann’s Der Gute Gott von Manhattan and Drei Wege zum See represent three literary responses to this philosophical challenge.
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