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Reader's block
Author
Title
Reader's block / by David Markson.
ISBN
1564781321
9781564781321
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, ©1996.
Physical Description
193 pages ; 21 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 4600: Paperbound. Autograph: Samuel R. Delany, NYC, May 8, 1997. Manuscript notes of Samuel R. Delany. Accompanied by: Newspaper clipping entitled "Novelist jogs his memory". All accompanying materials are housed separately. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Summary
An experimental novel consisting of musings on literature. The narrator ponders on the role of a protagonist in novels, concludes Moby-Dick was insincere, decides Toynbee was an anti-Semite, and who needs a plot anyway?
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
American literature series
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Psychological fiction.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Annotations (Provenance) - 20th century.
Also listed under
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Working Library.
United States Illinois Normal.
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