In the opening chapter of Eric Lundgren’s début novel, “The Facades” (Overlook), the narrator, Sven Norberg, enters a police station in the fictional Midwestern city of Trude. He is there to file a missing-person report for his wife, Molly, an opera singer who disappeared after going out to buy an egg for her throat. On the detective’s desk, Norberg notices that “instead of a family picture, was a grainy photograph of Wittgenstein.” The frame is inscribed with a misquotation: “THE CASE IS EVERYTHING THAT IS THE WORLD.”
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