David Markson obituary

Experimental US novelist who avoided literary safety netsDavid Markson, who has died aged 82, was one of the most original of US novelists. Kurt Vonnegut and Zadie Smith have written with saucer-eyed admiration of his fiction, while his Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) has been reprinted half a dozen times, after first having been rejected by a staggering 54 publishers. The American writer David Foster Wallace called it "pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country". Markson'...

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