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David Merrill Markson (December 20, 1927 – c. June 4, 2010) was an American novelist. He was the author of several postmodern novels , including Springer's Progress , Wittgenstein's Mistress , and Reader's Block .
Jun 4, 2010 · David Markson was an American novelist, born David Merrill Markson in Albany, New York. He is the author of several postmodern novels, including This is Not a Novel, Springer's Progress, and Wittgenstein's Mistress.
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Jun 8, 2010 · David Markson, whose wry, elliptical novels probing the scattered mind of the artist and the unruly craft of making art were frequently called postmodern and experimental and almost always...
Apr 17, 2014 · First published in 1988 —after fifty-four rejections, famously—and described by David Foster Wallace, in 1999, as one of the five most “direly underappreciated US novels >1960”—David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress has, for all that, had a remarkable first quarter-century in print.
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson is a highly stylized, experimental novel in the tradition of Samuel Beckett. The novel is mainly a series of statements made in the first person; the protagonist is a woman named Kate who believes herself to be the last human on earth.
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Oct 13, 2010 · Remembering David Markson (1927–2010), whose playful novels pushed storytelling to the edge of understanding.
Jun 8, 2010 · David Markson, a postmodern author who rummaged relentlessly and humorously through art, history and reality itself in such novels as “Wittgenstein’s Mistress” and wrote crime fiction, poetry...
