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Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson

Wittgenstein's Mistress David Markson ebook
ISBN: 1564782115, 9781564782113
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Page: 248
Format: epub

Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress got a huge plug from David Foster Wallace, but Markson's index-card tetraology of Reader's Block, This is Not a Novel, Vanishing Point, and The Last Novel, are to me, more rereadable. And I had books: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress, and William Gaddis's A Frolic of His Own. It's thin too, an approachable enough item for both a newcomer and a later-comer. 2007_07_wittgensteins_mistress.jpg We're still all barbeque and firework burns, but we managed to finish Wittgenstein's Mistress. Your library only has one of the Austrian's novels in translation: Wittgenstein's Mistress. "In a just world, Wittgenstein's Mistress would be offered notice on the cover of the New York Review of Books. Brain still humming with Elaine Blair's brilliant essay on David Foster Wallace, I read his own long 1990 review of Wittgenstein's Mistress, now reprinted in Both Flesh and Not. Wittgenstein's Mistress is a confounding book. Book review cross-posted to books1001 and my personal journal. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson Publication date: 1988. It is and it is not a sad day when an old man passes away. Pretty much the high point of experimental fiction this century, David Foster Wallace called Wittgenstein's Mistress. But I will remember him wonderfully, well, and long.