Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 Hardback -

"This is a vivid and moving account of the journey of a soul in a dark time, a time in which Wittgenstein was also testing out the limits of what could be said about our place in the world. Marjorie Perloff has done us a great service in making this text available."
--Colm Tibn, author of The Master

"Marjorie Perloff brings a poet's rather than a scholar's sensibility to her translation. . . . Here we see the man between the lines of the Tractatus, agonizing over personal and logical difficulties at the same time. Perloff's edition will be accessible to amateur fans of Wittgenstein and his work, as well as useful to students and scholars."
--James C. Klagge, author of Tractatus in Context

"Long neglected, this remarkable work has at long last reached the English-speaking public in a translation . . . by the doyenne of American modern poetry criticism, Marjorie Perloff, in a labor of love that unites sensitivity to aesthetic and cultural values with philosophical depth. It is essential reading."
--Allan Janik, philosopher and coauthor of Wittgenstein's Vienna

"Marjorie Perloff has offered us a window through which we might see the enigmatic Wittgenstein with justified compassion and empathy. This is a marvelous translation that truly adds to our knowledge of a much studied and phenomenally influential thinker."
--Percival Everett, author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier