Markson’s works are niche. They are often out of print or expensive to procure in physical format in English, and even more so in translation. The digital format ( .epub ) becomes a vessel for survival. It allows a text that might otherwise fade into obscurity to be passed from reader to reader, device to device.
Written when Markson was in his late seventies and published just three years before his death in 2010, The Last Novel is not a novel in any conventional sense. It is, as its title declares with characteristic finality, an ending—a deliberate, erudite, and heartbreaking performance of a writer staring into the abyss of silence. La ultima novela - Markson David.epub
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