Wittgenstein’s Mistress

Elmwood Park: Dalkey Archive Press, (1988). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 240 pp. Original black cloth-covered boards, stamped in gold, in original unclipped ($20.00) dust-jacket. Trivial wear to jacket, small wrinkle to front top edge of jacket. Book is tight, square and firm. Trivial handling & shelf wear, some faint smudges to page edges. Signed, dated and inscribed in marker to the front free endpaper. Dalkey Archive Press bookmark laid in.

Dust Jacket: Fine

Hardcover: Fine

“Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson is a highly stylized, experimental novel in the tradition of Samuel Beckett. The novel is mainly a series of statements made in the first person; the protagonist is a woman named Kate who believes herself to be the last human on earth. Though her statements shift quickly from topic to topic, the topics often recur, and often refer to Western cultural icons, ranging from Zeno to Beethoven to Willem de Kooning. Readers familiar with Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus will recognize stylistic similarities to that work."