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Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson

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

"The sentences proceed directly one from another," observed Amy Hempel in her review of "Wittgenstein's Mistress" (Dalkey Archive Press, 1988), perhaps Markson's best-known novel. Of this Wallace is well aware, and it's the explicit subject of BFaN's next long essay, “The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress” (originally published in 1990). 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. I ordered the three later novels I did not have and, in the process, noticed the novel he wrote before his last four: Wittgenstein's Mistress. Kate has come to believe she is the last person in the world. I recently finished David Markson's novel Wittgenstein's Mistress, and I thought the book was smart, beautiful, unique, and, at times, moving. Finished Blake Butler's Sky Saw and Raymond Queneau's The Flight of Icarus. But right now what Crusher wants to emphasize is that Wittgenstein's Mistress, Crusher thinks, is about what happens when a person is, well, crushed by loneliness. Read Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper” and David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson. A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family by Peter Dimock. Island People by Coleman Dowell.