La soledad del lector

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![endif]-- > < strong > David Markson < /strong > nació en Albany, Nueva York, el 20 de diciembre de 1927. Mientras estudiaba en Columbia, inició correspondencia con Malcolm Lowry. Se hicieron muy amigos, como lo prueba el epistolario de Lowry. La tesis de Markson sobre < em > Bajo el volcán < /em > se publicó en 1978. Mientras trabajaba como periodista, se dedicó a investigar (y sobrevivir) la bohemia de la década del cincuenta en compañía de escritores como Conrad Aiken, Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac. Es este último el que influye sobre todo en las primeras novelas de Markson. Como escritor de policiales & mdash; < em > Epitaph for a Tramp < /em > (1959) y < em > Epitaph for a Dead Beat < /em > (1961) & mdash;, muchos críticos aseguran que no encuentran otro parangón que Chandler. La primera puede leerse también como un comentario trágico sobre el adulterio, lo contrario de una moraleja cínica sobre la libertad sexual; la última le permite ironizar sobre el tipo de existencia bohemia que compartió con los escritores que se sacrificarían en su propia leyenda, como Allen Ginsberg. Hay que considerar que estos libros Markson los escribía por encargo, por dinero, y que sin embargo la exigencia de calidad nunca cedió ante las facilidades y garantías del género. La obra posterior acusa ya la influencia del existencialismo y las lecturas filosóficas. Son parejamente admirables: < em > Wittgenstein & rsquo;s Mistress < /em > (1988), < em > Springer & rsquo;s Progress < /em > (l990) y la serie que inicia < em > La soledad del lector < /em > (1996): < em > This is not a Novel < /em > (2001), < em > Vanishing Point < /em > (2004) y < em > The Last Novel < /em > (2007). David Markson murió en Nueva York en 2010. < /p >