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.
"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
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