2 books by David Markson
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Overview: 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. His most recent work, The Last Novel, was published in 2007 and received a positive review in the New York Times, which called it "a real tour de force."
Markson’s work is characterized by an unconventional approach to narration and plot. While his early works may draw on the modernist tradition of William Faulkner and Malcolm Lowry, Markson says his later novels are "literally crammed with literary and artistic anecdotes" and "nonlinear, discontinuous, collage-like, an assemblage." Dalkey Archive Press has published several of his novels. In December 2006, publishers Shoemaker & Hoard republished two of Markson’s early crime novels Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat in one volume. In addition to his novels, he has published a book of poetry and a critical study of Malcolm Lowry.
The movie Dirty Dingus Magee, starring Frank Sinatra, is based on Markson’s first novel, The Ballad of Dingus Magee, an anti-Western. He wrote three crime novels early in his career.
Educated at Union College and Columbia University, Markson began his writing career as a journalist and book editor, periodically taking up work as a college professor at Columbia University, Long Island University, and The New School.
Markson died in his New York City, West Village apartment.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
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.
The Ballad Of Dingus Magee
A reprint of an old classic, this is a wonderfully comic and rambunctious novel about a scrawny, bawdy, teenaged gunslinger determined to make a name for himself a la the "great, bad men of the Old West". The Ballad of Dingus Magee Was the basis for a 1970 movie starring Frank Sinatra."A bawdy, gaudy charade…There is even a parallel to Don Quixote and Sancho Panza…
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