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Wittgenstein's Mistress: In the Beginning, Sometimes I Left Messages in the Street (American Literature)by David Markson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson — or anyone else — has ever written. It is the story of a woman who is convinced — and may 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 from Brahms to sex to Heidegger to Helen of Troy. Review:"As precise and dazzling as Joyce....I couldn't put this book down. I can't forget it....Original, beautiful, and an absolute masterpiece." Ann Beattie Review:"A work of genius...an erudite, breathtaking cerebral novel whose prose is crystal and whose voice rivets and whose conclusion defies you not to cry." David Foster Wallace Review:"Brilliant and often hilarious...Markson is the one working novelist I can think of who can claim affinities with Joyce, Gaddis, and Lowry, no less than with Beckett." San Francisco Review of Books Review:"The novel I liked best this year....one dizzying, delightful, funny passage after another....Wittgenstein's Mistress gives proof positive that the experimental novel can produce high, pure works of imagination." Washington Times Synopsis:The heroine of David Markson's witty experimental novel is a woman named Kate, and she's convinced that she is the only person left on earth. Is she insane? And does it matter? As she ranges back through the events of her life, and through a ragbag of opinions on everything from Rembrandt's cat to Willem de Kooning's soccer shirt, Kate manages to find some kind of meaning for herself in the oddities she turns up. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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