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Reader's Block (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))Reader's Block (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))

Reader's Block (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))

David Markson

3.7(3)on Hardcover

About this book

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?

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OL Work ID
OL754945W

Subjects

AuthorshipWriter's blockNovelistsFictionNew York Times reviewedFiction, psychologicalMen novelistsPsychologyPsychological fiction

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