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Wittgenstein's Mistress David Markson
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr

"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. '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. 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. This is the fifth and final book of my short run of experimental and post-modern fiction. 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. Wittgenstein's Mistress is a confounding book. Ou une histoire de la peinture. In Terminator 2, an introduction to The Best American Essays 2007, and lots and lots of book reviews, which cover subjects from Borges and prose poems to nearly 50 pages on David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson Publication date: 1988. Ou encore un récit linguistique. Je me souviens de son roman, « 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. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson (Shane's book 20, 2011). Mais c'était peut-être un essai philosophique.