Experimental novel by American writer David Markson (1927-2010), recognized as a classic of postmodernism The novel is a journey into loneliness, where the main reader takes, and she is the only one, the heroine of a deserted world cluttered with the cultural heritage of mankind. Confusing on its canvas many threads pulled from the biographies and works of famous artists (composers, philosophers, writers)... ), inserting bright fragments of ancient myths, through them fragments of conflicting memories of the heroine , Reservations and Associations , The novel draws into a deep pattern, in knots and intersections of which the appearance of a confused and lonely person appears , left alone with the world culture (comfort? obsessive curse? unnecessary baggage? meaningless in the absence of humanity a set of artifacts?).... Markson in this book has achieved success at all really important levels of artistic persuasion. He embodied the abstract outlines of Wittgenstein's doctrine in a specific theater of human loneliness. At the same time, his novel was much better than a pseudo-biography, captured what made Wittgenstein a tragic figure and a victim of the most refracted modernity, the discovery of which he contributed to .. Erudite Markson wrote an amazingly clever novel with a transparent text, a mesmerizing voice and a finale from which tears turn up in his eyes. In addition, he created (as if unwittingly) a powerful critical reflection on the connection of loneliness with the language itself... David Foster Wallace