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Wittgenstein's Mistress David Markson
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr

I'm sorry for not posting much of late, fighting a familiar case of the late winter, pre-birthday blues. 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. Yet another in a series of nonreviews of books of a certain genre posing as books of another genre. Wittgenstein's Mistress is a confounding book. My $.02: Book Review - Wittgenstein's Mistress. However, the reader is left wondering whether this is the picture that the writer wanted to bring forth when the idea of writing Wittgenstein's Mistress first struck him. Image I read Wittgenstein's Mistress almost by accident. 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 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. Wittgenstein's Mistress, a novel by David Markson, 1988. Not very much happens in any conventional sense in this book. Ever in the world on Proust; and even little blurbs, here and there, such as David Foster Wallace's single paragraph in Salon on Wittgenstein's Mistress (preferable to the 50 page disaster republished in Both Flesh and Not). A friend of mine lent it to me and left the country without remembering to collect it. Next is a lengthy 1990 review of David Markson's novel Wittgenstein's Mistress, which lets Wallace return to the philosopher whose work he discussed heavily in his first novel, The Broom Of The System. Paul Maliszewski contributed a fine appreciation of the author, whom he knew. In early June, David Markson, the author of Wittgenstein's Mistress, died in New York. Bound Up With Books: Wittgenstein's Mistress Psuke This article I'll be reviewing Wittgenstein's Mistress, by David Markson. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson Publication date: 1988.