Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources. (New Books).(Book Review)

by David Mamet, Overlook Press, New York. 336 pp, $26.95 cloth. THE WORST NOVEL IN THIS PACK OF fictional forays by playwrights is undoubtedly David Mamet's Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources, an incomprehensible work that spills over with names but is devoid of characters. This collage of faked bits and fragments teems with incidents and anecdotes but lacks either plot or sense--it's ultimately a literary stunt that dares to ridicule the jargon and bombast of scholarly writing, but is itself monumentally unfunny, apocalyptically cryptic and impossible to decode. ...