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David Merrill Markson (December 20, 1927 – c. June 4, 2010)〔(Legacy.com Featured Tribute: David Markson ) as of June 7, 2010, when this article was published, the exact time of Markson's death is not known. This article states that his body was found on June 4, 2010〕 was an American novelist. He was the author of several postmodern novels, including ''Springer's Progress'', ''Wittgenstein's Mistress'', and ''Reader's Block''. His final book, ''The Last Novel'', published in 2007, was called "a real tour de force" by ''The New York Times''. Markson's work is characterized by an unconventional and experimental approach to narrative, character development and plot. The late writer David Foster Wallace hailed ''Wittgenstein's Mistress'' as "pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country".〔David Foster Wallace. "(Overlooked )", ''Salon'', April 12, 1999. Retrieved December 3, 2014.〕 While his early works draw on the modernist tradition of William Faulkner and Malcolm Lowry, his later novels are, in Markson's words, "literally crammed with literary and artistic anecdotes" and "nonlinear, discontinuous, collage-like, an assemblage." In addition to his output of modernist and postmodernist experimental literature, he published a book of poetry,〔 a critical study of Malcolm Lowry, three crime novels, and what's been called an anti-Western. The movie ''Dirty Dingus Magee'', starring Frank Sinatra, is based on Markson's anti-Western, ''The Ballad of Dingus Magee''. == Biography == David Merrill Markson was born in Albany, New York, on December 20, 1927.〔(Niagara Falls Reporter )〕 Educated at Union College and Columbia University, Markson began his writing career as a journalist and book editor, periodically taking up work as a college instructor at Columbia University, Long Island University, and The New School.〔"David Merrill Markson" in ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Thompson Gale, 2007.〕 Though his first novel was published in the late 1950s, he did not gain prominence until the late 1980s, when he was over 60 years old, with the publication of ''Wittgenstein's Mistress''. From that point, his reputation as writer steadily grew, so much so that he told an interviewer: "One of my friends told me to be careful before I become well known for being unknown."〔 Markson died in New York City, in his West Village apartment where, according to the author's literary agent and former wife Elaine Markson, Markson's two children found him on June 4, 2010 in his bed.〔〔(Long Island Press: David Markson, postmodern master, dead at age 82 )〕 Upon David Markson's death, his entire personal library was donated to the Strand Bookstore, according to his wishes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Markson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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