In store now! Wittgenstein’s Mistress, by David Markson
A masterpiece of modern fiction unlike any other!
Kate is the last person on earth. She has been alone for many years, living in art galleries, burning the frames of masterpieces for warmth. She moves to a house on the beach, and instead burns the pages of the books she has just read, whittling culture and history away, until only she remains.
As Kate tells us of her joys and traumas, we are carried along by her witty, hypnotic mode of storytelling. As we move through her story however, it becomes clear that her tales of meeting the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, or her journey to ancient Troy, may not be true, and we start to wonder - is anyone ever really alone?
One of the most astoundingly beautiful novels ever written, with one of the most unique narrators in modern fiction, Wittgenstein’s Mistress is a funny, heartfelt meditation on what it means to be alive.
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Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson
Paperback £12.99
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 reader 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.
Blurb lifted from publisher.
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