Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno

Author:Kate Zambreno
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

Wittgenstein’s Mistress

It doesn’t seem believable Kate could get laid, said my graduate student. We had been reading David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress. Is it because, I asked, she is the last person on earth, or because you think she’s old, or because you think she’s crazy? He seemed to think all of it. I’m sure she did just fine, I said to him, rather defensively. Whenever I think about Wittgenstein’s Mistress, I think about my roommate way back when, who I’ve written about before, who was a decade older than me and in love with a literary scholar a decade older than she who had written an important (apparently) scholarly essay on that book. How when he broke up with her, so cruelly, she locked herself in her room and lived in her bed like a shipwreck on an island. I was a waitress then. Years later I sat across from him in Bergen, Norway, as I had accompanied my spouse to a literary conference. He had no idea of the connection, I’m sure. He looked like a well-slicked mole man. I watched him slurp his soup and speak about the contemporary American novel and I hated him in sympathy for my former friend. This sort of heavily referential writing is difficult for readers, I’ve been told. Bricolage, Kate said.

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