Wittgenstein's Mistress

De: David Markson

Narrado por: Madeleine Dauer

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the listener as well that she is the only person left on earth.

Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing is her character, and so witty and seductive her narrative voice, that we will follow her hypnotically as she unloads the intellectual baggage of a lifetime in a series of irreverent meditations on everything and everybody from Brahms to sex to Heidegger to Helen of Troy. And as she contemplates aspects of the troubled past which have brought her to her present state—obviously a metaphor for ultimate loneliness—so too will her drama become one of the few certifiably original fictions of our time.

"The novel I liked best this year," said the Washington Times upon the book's publication; "one dizzying, delightful, funny passage after another . . . Wittgenstein's Mistress gives proof positive that the experimental novel can produce high, pure works of imagination."

©1988 David Markson (P)2024 Tantor

The world is everything that is the case.

This is brilliant. If you like both Wittgenstein and experimental fiction, try this out. It’s incredibly creative.

utterly pretentious crud

in fact, as a matter of fact, perhaps, however, incidentally, one would have thought a philosopher who studied Wittgenstein would have liked this, however, as a matter of fact, one did not like it at all.