A few years’ ago, I asked for David Markson’s This Is Not A Novel for my birthday. My wife bought me This Is Not A Novel by Jennifer Johnston. David Markson’s This Is Not A Novel is a series of staccato fragments, a kind of commonplace book of literary history, delivered by a narrator called ‘Writer’ who presents an anti-narrative of literary deaths and gossip (‘Botticelli spent his last years on crutches’; ‘John Milton died of gout’ – I wrote about it
Funny, I've experienced with Markson a variation on this. I can't remember what had happened, perhaps the curriculum was changed a tad bit too late, but for one class I took in college some of the students were reading Markson's This is not a Novel, the others his Reader's Block.
I suppose that editor of Title Pages is not a mere relative?
And for the explicit: http://books-on-books.com/2019/04/23/the-colophon-and-the-left-over-i/ !
Funny, I've experienced with Markson a variation on this. I can't remember what had happened, perhaps the curriculum was changed a tad bit too late, but for one class I took in college some of the students were reading Markson's This is not a Novel, the others his Reader's Block.
I suppose that editor of Title Pages is not a mere relative?