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Also designated No.10 in the collection. Printed on handmade gray paper made by Moulin de Puymoyen. The layout of the text and images in this book appears to have been done with a "collage" technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated No.10 in the collection. The layout of the text and images in this book appears to have been accomplished by a "collage" technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a reprint from the first edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text and drawings were composed by Roche and reflect his love of cats. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem consists of the word, peace, printed in several languages with exclamation points, in the shape of a skeletal face. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book deals with the "force of song" in Roche's work with contributions by several writers as sort of a Festschrift. It is the deluxe edition of the book which consists of 13 copies numbered Z 1 to Z 13 and includes two prints, a collage, and manuscript page. The bibliography lists books, music records, drama, and essays about Roche, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The texts on each right facing page are by Maurice Roche and are printed wthin an outline drawing of an upside-down violin. The varying lithographs and original engravings of violins are by Arman and are printed on the left facing pages. This is the second edition, the first consisted 93 copies of signed lithographs and gravures by Arman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print depicts a stylized, line drawing of a cat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents James Kirkup obituary (published in The Independent) of Maurice Roche born Clermont-Ferrand, France 2 November 1924; died Sevres, France 19 July 1997. To be born on the Day of the Dead might seem to presage a gloomy future. Maurice Roche, unique among contemporary French writers, who was born on that fatidic date, refused to acknowledge the coincidence as an omen of catastrophe. He spent much of his life making a mock of mortality. His irreverent spirit took a macabre delight in deriding those who took death seriously. He would quote "The Latest Decalogue" by that disabused Victorian Arthur Hugh Clough, with whom he had much in common: Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive Officiously to keep alive. Derision was his only defence against a life he despised. Roche spent the war as a student in Lyons, then moved to Paris to start work as a journalist on Ce Soir (1946-48). Like almost every young man with literary leanings, he founded a short-lived magazine, Elements, in 1951. He...

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The main text is printed in English and then on the flip side of the book, in French. It seems to be a memoir of Federman's experience in anti-Semitic France before WWII. The center portion of the book is a text by Maurice Roche "Echos," which is written in run-on French with each page reprinted in mirror image on the verso side. The text is unpunctuated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The main text is printed in English and then on the flip side of the book, in French. It seems to be a memoir of Federman's experience in anti-Semitic France before WWII. The center portion of the book is a text by Maurice Roche "Echos," which is written in run-on French with each page reprinted in mirror image on the verso side. The text is unpunctuated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Most of the spaces between words are omitted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print depicts a stylized, line drawing of a cat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print depicts eight, red skeletons in a dancing pose. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is not listed in Roche's bibliography published in "La Violence Le Chant" (1994). It is designated as Collectif Generation No.109. The tirage is not provided but probably is about 20 copies as judged from similar books in the series. The paper is Moulon du Gue and has seven, small round perforations lined up in an evenly spaced row in the middle of the page. The text is printed mostly on the edges, partly underneath the paraffin edges. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.