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Wittgenstein's Mistress (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) (Paperback)
$14.42 - Save $1.36 (8%) - RRP $15.78 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Wittgenstein's MistressWittgenstein'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.
Full description- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Published: 01 December 1998
- Format: Paperback 248 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781564782113 ISBN 10: 1564782115
- Sales rank: 36,543
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Full description for Wittgenstein's Mistress
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 obviously a metaphor for ultimate loneliness so too will her drama become one of the few certifiably original fictions of our time."The novel I liked best this year," said the Washington Times upon the book's publication in 1988; "one dizzying, delightful, funny passage after another . . . Wittgenstein's Mistress gives proof positive that the experimental novel can produce high, pure works of imagination."
