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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. "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."… (más)
Philll: The speaker follows a similar path in that he's quickly loosing his grasp. It's also full of intellectual stuff like in W's M, though of a different variety.
michaeljohn: Both novels—each nontraditional and singular in form—feature a narrator wandering in a desolate landscape. Both narrators also show a similar propensity for historical digression.
bluepiano: Another outstanding book whose protagonist is isolated and possibly unreliable. It too has an unconventional narrative style and an astoundingly distinctive voice.
Una mujer llamada Kate vive sola en una casa en la playa y escribe a máquina un alud de recuerdos y reflexiones aunque nadie los leerá, convencida como está de que es el último ser humano sobre la faz de la tierra. Lo sabe con certeza, pues no ha dado con un alma a pesar de haber recorrido el mundo entero, refugiándose en la National Gallery, en el Metropolitan o en el Louvre, donde quemaba antigüedades y marcos de cuadros para soportar el frío en invierno. Así, revisitando los hitos de la cultura occidental –de la Odisea a Picasso, de Leonardo da Vinci a Brahms, de Shakespeare a Wittgenstein–, hilando un tema con otro, empiezan a asomar aquí y allá las hondas fracturas de la mente de Kate, y la narración se revela entonces en toda su amarga y conmovedora belleza.
En ese baile entre lo dicho y lo no dicho transita esta novela magistral, ambiciosa y poética que David Foster Wallace señaló como una de sus obras favoritas. Más allá de su innegable ingenio, más allá de su humor, su ironía y su virtuosismo, La amante de Wittgenstein supone en última instancia una poderosa reflexión sobre la memoria, el lenguaje, la incomunicación, la locura y la más desgarradora soledad.
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. "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."
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En ese baile entre lo dicho y lo no dicho transita esta novela magistral, ambiciosa y poética que David Foster Wallace señaló como una de sus obras favoritas. Más allá de su innegable ingenio, más allá de su humor, su ironía y su virtuosismo, La amante de Wittgenstein supone en última instancia una poderosa reflexión sobre la memoria, el lenguaje, la incomunicación, la locura y la más desgarradora soledad.