{"id":4012,"date":"2020-07-13T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2020-10-25T18:30:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T05:30:58","slug":"wittgensteins-mistress-david-markson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2020\/07\/13\/wittgensteins-mistress-david-markson\/","title":{"rendered":"Wittgenstein&#8217;s Mistress &#8212; David Markson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200725_152800-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200725_152800-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200725_152800-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200725_152800-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200725_152800-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200725_152800-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200725_152800-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200725_152800-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is a diary written by the last person on earth. It\u2019s not initially clear what happened to everyone else, but we find out that she has been alone for some years, travelling around in abandoned cars and living in various interesting abandoned buildings (such as museums). It becomes clear that she is becoming a bit unhinged; understandable in her circumstances. To me this book reads like a study in memory, regret and self-deception, though that makes it sound a bit grim; there is a fair bit of humour in this book. The overall tone is reminiscent of Markson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2017\/03\/15\/this-is-not-a-novel-david-markson\/\">This is Not a Novel<\/a>. <em>Wittgenstein&#8217;s Mistress<\/em> is more conventional, but that wouldn\u2019t be hard: it\u2019s still a strange, amusing and unsettling read.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a diary written by the last person on earth. It\u2019s not initially clear what happened to everyone else, but we find out that she has been alone for some years, travelling around in abandoned cars and living &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2020\/07\/13\/wittgensteins-mistress-david-markson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,113,63],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-david-markson","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4013,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/4013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}