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Wittgenstein's Mistress David Markson
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr

€�There is no better way of keeping sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.” -Leonardo. You can find the review/article, “The Empty Plenum: David Markson's 'Wittgenstein's Mistress'” (as well as links to many other uncollected DFW works) at the uncollected DFW page of my website, The Howling Fantods:. On “Wittgenstein's Mistress” by David Markson (1988) DFW wrote,. There's a couple of extended book reviews included in Both Flesh And Not – 'The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress' and 'Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama'. 18 Wittgenstein's Mistress-David Markson. 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. Wittgenstein's Mistress tells the story of a woman, Kate, who believes she is the last living creature on earth. "The sentences proceed directly one from another," observed Amy Hempel in her review of "Wittgenstein's Mistress" (Dalkey Archive Press, 1988), perhaps Markson's best-known novel. 'In the beginning, sometimes I left messages on the street,' is the first sentence of Wittgenstein's Mistress, an amazing novel I just had the pleasure to read. The cover of my edition of Wittgenstein's Mistress declares it "A Novel"*. First, because names and classification are at the heart of the novel. For instance, if one has read Wittgenstein's Mistress (Dalkey Archive, 1988), the book preceding Reader's Block, one knows that Kate, the narrator, is, or believes herself to be, the last creature on earth. That's an unexpectedly helpful note. Paul Maliszewski contributed a fine appreciation of the author, whom he knew. David Markson: Wittgenstein's Mistress Doubtless none of these was a book which had been translated from English, however, where I have the largest familiarity with writers, but had been written in German to begin with. In early June, David Markson, the author of Wittgenstein's Mistress, died in New York. €�W's M” is a dramatic rendering of what it would be like to live in the sort of universe described by logical atomism.