Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson

Wittgenstein's Mistress



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


Finished Blake Butler's Sky Saw and Raymond Queneau's The Flight of Icarus. Experimental novelist David Markson (pictured, via) passed away this weekend. 'In the beginning, sometimes I left messages on the street,' is the first sentence of Wittgenstein's Mistress, an amazing novel I just had the pleasure to read. Read Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper” and David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress. Yes, the author is the same David Markson who went on to write Wittgenstein's Mistress and the likes of This is not a Novel, but you'd never guess it from the Harry Fannin detective novels. The cover of my edition of Wittgenstein's Mistress declares it "A Novel"*. That's an unexpectedly helpful note. What an extraordinary change takes place . Jemc: I know that I'd just read both Carole Maso's Ava and David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress immediately before starting to write this, so those are pretty easy influences to pinpoint for me. I recently finished David Markson's novel Wittgenstein's Mistress, and I thought the book was smart, beautiful, unique, and, at times, moving. In 1988, Markson published the groundbreaking novel, Wittgenstein's Mistress. First, because names and classification are at the heart of the novel. Falconer by John Cheever (Alfred A.

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