MARKSON, David. Wittgenstein's Mistress
MARKSON, David. Wittgenstein's Mistress. London: Jonathan Cape. 1989. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket with illustration by Steven Woollard. A smart and clean example, the book fine but for a very slightly dusty top edge, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the contents fine without inscriptions or spots. The dust jacket unclipped (£11.95) and complete, fine with the spine foot ever so slightly kinked.
The author’s most famous work, an immediate study of depression and loneliness told through a single narrative, a woman who may or may not be the last person on Earth. It was rejected by 54 publishers before Dalkey Archive took the gamble, and this Cape British edition followed a year later. David Foster Wallace praised the work and later wrote an afterword. In it, he describes the novel’s slippery philosophy, “though its prose and monotone are hauntingly pedestrian, the novel’s diffracted system of allusions to everything from antiquity to Astroturf are a bitch to trace out”. It is, in this cataloguer’s opinion, a quiet classic. Uncommon.
MARKSON, David. Wittgenstein's Mistress. London: Jonathan Cape. 1989. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket with illustration by Steven Woollard. A smart and clean example, the book fine but for a very slightly dusty top edge, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the contents fine without inscriptions or spots. The dust jacket unclipped (£11.95) and complete, fine with the spine foot ever so slightly kinked.
The author’s most famous work, an immediate study of depression and loneliness told through a single narrative, a woman who may or may not be the last person on Earth. It was rejected by 54 publishers before Dalkey Archive took the gamble, and this Cape British edition followed a year later. David Foster Wallace praised the work and later wrote an afterword. In it, he describes the novel’s slippery philosophy, “though its prose and monotone are hauntingly pedestrian, the novel’s diffracted system of allusions to everything from antiquity to Astroturf are a bitch to trace out”. It is, in this cataloguer’s opinion, a quiet classic. Uncommon.
MARKSON, David. Wittgenstein's Mistress. London: Jonathan Cape. 1989. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket with illustration by Steven Woollard. A smart and clean example, the book fine but for a very slightly dusty top edge, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the contents fine without inscriptions or spots. The dust jacket unclipped (£11.95) and complete, fine with the spine foot ever so slightly kinked.
The author’s most famous work, an immediate study of depression and loneliness told through a single narrative, a woman who may or may not be the last person on Earth. It was rejected by 54 publishers before Dalkey Archive took the gamble, and this Cape British edition followed a year later. David Foster Wallace praised the work and later wrote an afterword. In it, he describes the novel’s slippery philosophy, “though its prose and monotone are hauntingly pedestrian, the novel’s diffracted system of allusions to everything from antiquity to Astroturf are a bitch to trace out”. It is, in this cataloguer’s opinion, a quiet classic. Uncommon.