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David Markson

Born

in Albany, New York, The United States

December 20, 1927

Died

June 04, 2010

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

Influences

Malcolm Lowry, James Joyce, William Gaddis, Gertrude Stein, Conrad Aik ...more

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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."

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Average rating: 3.95 · 14,534 ratings · 2,110 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors

	Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson, David Foster Wallace (Afterword) 3.92 avg rating — 7,616 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is Not a Novel 4.02 avg rating — 1,636 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reader’s Block 4.06 avg rating — 1,578 ratings — published 1996 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanishing Point 3.89 avg rating — 1,467 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Novel 4.15 avg rating — 1,038 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Springer’s Progress 3.91 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ballad of Dingus Magee 3.78 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1965 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Epitaph for a Tramp & Epitaph for a Dead Beat: The Harry Fannin Detective Novels by David Markson, Robert McGinnis (Illustrator) 3.83 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1959 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is Not a Novel and Other Novels 4.22 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Going Down 3.64 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1970 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Notecard Quartet (4 books)
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Harry Fannin (2 books)
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Quotes by David Markson (?)

“Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?”
― David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress

tags: loneliness, searching, solitude

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“Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano.
What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.”
― David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress

tags: meaning, music, schumann

44 likes

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
― David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress

tags: frighten, silence

37 likes

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