Wittgenstein's mistress

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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 o…

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Title Statements

Full title :Wittgenstein's mistress / David Markson.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010, ©1995.
Edition:2nd paperback ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Dalkey archive Press
Place of Publication:Champaign, IL
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010, ©1995.

Notes

With an afterword by Steven Moore.

"6th printing."

The Physical Object

Description:248 pages ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781564782113, 1564782115
oclc:ocn779977911
LC Classification:PS3563.A67
Dewey Decimal:813.54

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