A review by reasie
This Is Not a Novel by David Markson
4.0
I grabbed this for its title and it was a quick read. It's not a novel. It's a series of factoids, mostly about famous artists and how they died or how someone at some point thought they were utter crap, inter spaced with interjections from Writer. (Like, "Art that is not propaganda is not art, said Diego Rivera. Writer's Arse.")
Not necessarily anyone's cup of tea, but I liked it thoroughly, probably helped by the writer's preoccupation with medieval subjects that appeal to me. (Yay for every mention of Van der Goes and Memling!)
The whole has an odd sense of humor and seems designed singularly to cheer up an author fighting writer's block.
Not necessarily anyone's cup of tea, but I liked it thoroughly, probably helped by the writer's preoccupation with medieval subjects that appeal to me. (Yay for every mention of Van der Goes and Memling!)
The whole has an odd sense of humor and seems designed singularly to cheer up an author fighting writer's block.