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The Last Novel: what will it be called?
By M&C News Jul 8, 2007, 14:05 GMT
Just that. David Markson, the author of the novel called The Last Novel is a book that The New York Times’ Catherine Texier is calling, “The Last Novel, which is anything but a novel in any conventional sense of the term. Yet it manages to keep us enthralled during the length of its short 190-page span, and even moved to tears at the end.”
The lead character is one called Novelist, who “pops up among the anecdotes and quotations, often to comment wearily on his depression, and Markson uses this sort-of character to create a sort of tension--who is Novelist, and why is he or she obsessed with gossip, coincidences, facetiae, and death?” according to Booklist.
Vanishing Point was Markson’s previous book, where the lead was referred to as “Author”. The book works sort of like a trilogy, with This Is Not a Novel, followed by Vanishing Point, and then The Last Novel.
Only will it be? Publisher’s Weekly states, “Markson's dark fragments are, paradoxically, a joy to sift and ponder.” The novel is published by Shoemaker & Hoard.
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