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 ...
This may not be a novel, but it is a highly inventive work that drifts between fiction, non-fiction and psychological memoir. After what seems to be a circuitous route with characters, stories, quotes and anecdotes, the real meaning lies in the journey, not the destination.
An unusual experimental novel about a women who believes she is alone on the earth. She breaks down the components of her troubled past and so "deconstructs" both her own narrative and the putative "reality" of the history of the world. The author has written a biography of Malcolm Lowry.
Lucien Springer, heading into mid-life, is a novelist faced with a case of writer's block. To keep his mind off his work, he pursues women--but he does not wish to become embroiled in any relationship outside of his 18-year marriage. Then he meets the 20-something Jessica Cornford, who entangles him in a relationship far more intense than he had ...
Although best known today for his singular, stunning "anti-novels" dazzlingly conjured from anecdotes, quotes, and small thoughts, in his early days David Markson paid the rent by writing punchy, highly dramatic fictions. On the heels of a new double edition of his steamy noirs "Epitaph for a Tramp" and "Epitaph for a Deadbeat" comes a new edition ...
Before achieving critical acclaim as a novelist, David Markson paid the rent by writing several crime novels, including two featuring the private detective Harry Fannin. Together here in one volume, these works are now available to a new generation of readers. In "Epitaph for a Tramp," Fannin isn't called out to investigate a murder -- it happens ...
In recent novels, which have been called "hypnotic," "stunning," and "exhilarating," David Markson has created his own personal genre. In this new work, "The Last Novel," an elderly author (referred to only as "Novelist") announces that since this will be his final effort, he has "carte blanche to do anything he damned well pleases." Pressed by ...
David Markson is justly celebrated for his offbeat, highly experimental novels. GOING DOWN, however, is a more mainstream work. Originally published in 1970, it is set in the '60s in Mexico, where Markson lived for several years. The story is told through the consciousness of six characters, whose elliptical narratives overlap and occasionally ...
An "Author" meditates on death, life, and art, from notes on index cards. Once again, David Markson ranges eruditely through music, literature, history, and much else to construct a narrative of anxiety and the fear of extinction from seemingly random facts. As in all of Markson's books, the randomness coheres by the end into a "seminonfictional ...
In this spellbinding, utterly unconventional fiction, an aging author who is identified only as Reader contemplates the writing of a novel. As he does, other matters insistently crowd his mind - literary and cultural anecdotes, endless quotations attributed and not, scholarly curiosities - the residue of a lifetime's reading which is apparently ...
This collection of poetry spans David Markson's career, covering themes such as literature, art, music, death, sex, booze--preoccupations that appear in all his works, whether poetry or prose. They are also characterized by his trademark word play, wit, and a stubborn refusal to embrace the modern and the ephemeral.
Novelist David Markson's master's thesis, written in 1952, was on Malcolm Lowry's UNDER THE VOLCANO--the first serious critical assessment of the book. Markson's thesis--later expanded into this full-length study--is still considered the best commentary on the novel. Lowry was not only Markson's friend, but an acknowledged influence on his fiction.
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