This Is Not a Novel

If David Markson is anything like Writer, a lugubrious fellow who pops up intermittently in This Is Not a Novel, his latest experimental outing, he seems to have written a book that's entertaining in spite of himself. Writer mopes around, feeling weary unto death of making up stories and equally tired of inventing characters. In an apparent bid to make his readers just as miserable, he wishes to contrive a novel without either.

By: Laura Miller

(Source: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/01/bib/010401.rvnovel.html)