Yet, following Karl's death, Paul successfully used his family's wealth to help launch a career as a concert pianist-and to extend it, even after losing his right arm in World War I. Each of three other brothers would commit suicide three sisters suffered from lifelong psychological problems. Waugh tells it, both grew up oppressed by their father, steel magnate and renowned patron Karl Wittgenstein. Waugh focuses on Paul Wittgenstein, elder brother of Ludwig, the philosopher. last fall, "House of Wittgenstein" portrays a troubled family. In 2004, Auberon's son Alexander, a former record producer, agent, and opera critic, who had tossed off books on classical music, properly broke into the family business with a five-generation family history, "Fathers and Sons." In his latest effort, Alexander Waugh casts his gaze into the darker thicket of another storied clan. The author and publisher Arthur Waugh begat two novelists, Alec, and Evelyn Evelyn, who attained fame with "Brideshead Revisited" (1945), begat Auberon, the journalist. Greek dramatists rooted in the houses of Cadmus and Atreus contemporary novelists can find predecessors among Émile Zola's "Rougon-Macquarts," Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks," or William Faulkner's "Snopeses." In England, the Waughs have held real-life literary eminence for over a century. Tragic literature abounds with dynasties.
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