The Last Novel
$27.36
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2007
Summary
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 solitude and age, Novelist’s preoccupations inevitably turn to the stories of other artists - their genius, their lack of recognition, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781593761431 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1593761430 |
| Author: | David Markson |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2007 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 139mm x 209mm |
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Critics Review
“A cultural history of the Western world cast as a bricolage of decontextualized anecdotes, quotations, and facts … A lifetime’s reading boiled down to sentences that have the terse clarity of epitaphs.” – James Gibbons
“Jester cousin to Pound’s Cantos–notations that gradually cohere in an underlying progress, a drift toward the momentary reconciliation of art, intellect, and mortality.”
“This is a novel of a thousand voices at their most concise, outrageous and most telling, indefatigably conceived and executed with a learned sparkle. It stands out as a daring tour de force (yet again), just the kind of novel only Markson would take on and do with such uncompromising elan.” – Paul West
David Markson
David Markson is the author of five novels, including Springer’s Progress, Wittgenstein’s Mistress, and Reader’s Block. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Salon Book Award. He lives in New York City.
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