Wittgenstein's Mistress
of David Markson, Steven Moore (Afterword), David Foster Wallace (Afterword)
Description
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced, and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well, that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing is her character, and so witty and seductive her narrative voice, that we will follow her hypnotically as she unloads the intellectual baggage of a lifetime in a series of irreverent meditations on everything and everybody from Brahms to sex to Heidegger to Helen of Troy. And as she contemplates aspects of the troubled past which have brought her to her present state, so too will her drama become one of the few certifiably original fictions of our time.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 279 pages
- Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date May 1st 1988
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9781564782113
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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