This Is Not a Novel is a highly inventive work that drifts "genre-less" somewhere in between fiction, nonfiction, and psychological memoir. In the opening pages a narrator, called only "Writer", announces that he is "weary unto death of making up stories", not to mention inventing characters and contemplating plot, setting, theme. Now for the first time, three of Markson's masterpieces are compiled into one page–turning volume: This Is Not a Novel, Vanishing Point, and The Last Novel. In This Is Not a Novel, readers meet an author, called only "Writer," who is weary unto death of making up stories, and yet is determined to seduce the reader into turning pages and getting somewhere/5(48). "This is a novel if Writer or Robert Rauschenberg says so," announces David Markson's Writer early in This Is Not a Novel. On paper, TINAN is a series of short epigrammatic statements that, overall, as I read it, meditate sardonically the absurd strug Writer sets out to write a novel without characters, action, setting, conflict, social themes, plot or any of the other trappings of fiction.4/5.
From the erudite and extraordinary Markson: a sequel to Reader's Block () that has the same high, literary shenanigans as the earlier volume but adds a newly deepened tone as the author looks unblinkingly into the eye of life—and death.. The author, known only as "Writer," has plenty to say indeed, though admittedly in the most pared-down manner possible, via a booklength list (as before. David Markson, in his mid-seventies and evidently in poor health, appears to bid adieu not only to the reader of this slender book but also to the craft that has been his life's passion and. Markson's last four novels, Reader's Block (), This Is Not a Novel (), Vanishing Point () and The Last Novel (), all walk a literary tightrope, without the usual safety nets of.
This Is Not a Novel is the work of a long-neglected and long-suffering author finally at the apex. "This is a novel if Writer or Robert Rauschenberg says so," announces David Markson's Writer early in This Is Not a Novel. On paper, TINAN is a series of short epigrammatic statements that, overall, as I read it, meditate sardonically the absurd strug Writer sets out to write a novel without characters, action, setting, conflict, social themes, plot or any of the other trappings of fiction. From the erudite and extraordinary Markson: a sequel to Reader's Block () that has the same high, literary shenanigans as the earlier volume but adds a newly deepened tone as the author looks unblinkingly into the eye of life#;and death.
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