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David Markson


USA flag (1927 - 2010)

David Markson was an American author, born in Albany, New York in 1927. 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."
 

 
Series
Fannin
   1. Epitaph for a Tramp (1959)
     aka Fannin
   2. Epitaph for a Dead Beat (1961)
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Novels
   The Ballad of Dingus Maggee (1965)
   Miss Doll, Go Home (1965)
   Going Down (1970)
   Springer's Progress (1977)
   Wittgenstein's Mistress (1989)
   This Is Not a Novel (2001)
   Vanishing Point (2004)
   The Last Novel (2007)
   Reader's Block (2012)
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Collections
   Collected Poems (poems) (1993)
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Anthologies edited
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