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Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson

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

What an extraordinary change takes place . Some of it I got, a lot of it I didn't get. 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. In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street. 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. The Empty Plenum: David Markson's 'Wittgenstein's Mistress' – A difficult and meandering book review that's not for the philosophically uninitiated. Somebody is living in the Louvre, certain of the messages would say. Brain still humming with Elaine Blair's brilliant essay on David Foster Wallace, I read his own long 1990 review of Wittgenstein's Mistress, now reprinted in Both Flesh and Not. So here in Wittgenstein's Mistress we have a woman, in an world empty of people (and, eventually, we learn of all living creatures) writing her life as a signal to whomever might be there, which is, also eventually, no one. Wittgenstein's Mistress tells the story of a woman, Kate, who believes she is the last living creature on earth. 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). 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). I first began to reconsider my position after seeing some extravagant reviews of Wittgenstein's Mistress, Reader's Block & This is Not a Novel.