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David Merrill Markson (December 20, 1927 – c. June 4, 2010) [1] was an American novelist. He was the author of several postmodern novels, including Springer's Progress, Wittgenstein's Mistress, and Reader's Block. His final book, The Last Novel, published in 2007, was called "a real tour de force" by The New York Times.
Jul 25, 2023 · To celebrate the recent release of Wittgenstein’s Mistress as part of the Dalkey Archive Essentials series, it seems like the perfect time to revisit this re-reading of David Markson’s classic novel about language, memory, grief, and possibly the end of the world. First published in 1988 —after fifty-four rejections, famously—and ...
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Jun 14, 2010 · Mon 14 Jun 2010 13.36 EDT. David Markson, who has died aged 82, was one of the most original of US novelists. Kurt Vonnegut and Zadie Smith have written with saucer-eyed admiration of his...
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...
David Merrill Markson (* 20. Dezember 1927 in Albany, New York; † 4. Juni 2010 in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller, dessen ironische, elliptische Romane den zerstreuten Geist des Künstlers sondierten [1] und dessen unbändiges, fast immer überraschend ansprechendes Schaffenswerk von ...
