Vanishing Point (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Markson
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Principal Characters: Author
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Writing, Novelists, Drama or dramatists, Plays or playwrights
In both Reader's Block (1996) and This Is Not a Novel (2001), David Markson constructs what seemed to be not novels but instead collections of brief anecdotes, quotations, and factoids. Neither volume is narrated, and neither offers the conventional gratification of observing human lives enmeshed in a plot that proceeds through tension toward resolution. In each case, the reader is invited to impute novelistic design to disparate statements—usually about eight to ten to a page. If “found poetry” is verse whose virtue lies in selection and arrangement, not invention,...
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