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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

Mr. Watkins Got Drunk And Had To Be Carried Home / Nuttall, Jeff ; Burroughs WS ; Musgrove K ; Rowan J ; Cobbing B ; Pike J., 1968

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Identifier: CC-30463-31884
Scope and Contents

This book documents a party piece done in 1964 after a cut-up idea by William Buroughs. It is designated writers forum poets number twenty four. The number of copies estimated by Ulysses No.65 1998 was estimated at 50. The cover of this edition differs from the facsimile that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

My Argument with the Gestapo: A Macaronic Journal / Merton, Thomas., 1969

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Identifier: CC-35668-37418
Scope and Contents

This is Merton's only premonastic prose work, a novel about his views on peace and war, written before he entered a Trappist monastery. There is a dreamlike or nightmarish quality to the story, heightened by the use of a wierd composite language, a mixture of English and several languages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

myesis (Vol.1), 2006

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Identifier: CC-45694-47902
Scope and Contents

myesis signifies layers and stages of fragmentation. Chapters or sections as fragments of the book; paragraphs as fragments of chapters; sentences as fragments of the paragraphs; phrases as fragments of the sentences; words as fragments of the phrases; letters as fragments of the words. I read the empty spaces. Myesis is an excessive, minimalist writing. Leftwich interweaves Greek mythology, Judaism, comments on music and performance with language poetry and the rules of poetry . He provides several long quotes from contemporary poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Narrowgauge to Riobamba / Brandi, John., 1975

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Identifier: CC-21533-21944
Scope and Contents

The drawings in this book were done by John Brandi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Negativeland / Nufer, Doug., 2004

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Identifier: CC-49554-70602
Scope and Contents

The book starts with chapter 6 and finishes with chapter 1. Amazon.com review: "In this rueful tale, written under a simple but pervasive formal constraint, Olympic gold medal winner Ken Honochick and his girlfriend take a cross-country road trip to revisit his brief moment of triumph and his subsequent long haul on the promotions circuit. The result is a smart, flirtatious tour-de-force that's as funny as it is inventive. Under all the comic gusto and technical virtuosity, however, there's also some penetrating thought on our country's obsession with private foibles and public image, individual achievement and the pressure to cash in on it. " -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Niagara: A Stereophonic Novel / Butor, Michel ; Elinor S. Miller, translator., 1969

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Identifier: CC-21046-21455
Scope and Contents This is the first American edition of this book.eNotes internet summary: "Niagara both epitomizes the French New Novel of the 1950's and 1960's and bewilders readers expecting traditional plot and character development. It is a work in which very little happens in the usual sense of novelistic action; structure towers over substance and the medium itself is one of the principal messages. Simply put, over the course of a year, groups of representative and interchangeable characters visit Niagara Falls, take the usual tours (on the Maid of the Mist, for example), speak to one another or to themselves, observe the local attractions, and leave. The human action in the novel follows predictably from one chapter (which spans a month's time) to another and is as constant as the flow of the falls.On another level, the novel's action takes place in the mind of the individual reader, who must participate in the work by making judgments, listening, adjusting the volume of what is heard, and...
Dates: 1969

No.30: Advance Copy / Davies, Jordan ; Burroughs WS ; Smith WJ ; Gass W ; Rothenberg J ; Williams J ; Patchen K ; Hamady W ; Olson T ; Nuttall J., 1985

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Identifier: CC-14834-15147
Scope and Contents

Jordan Davies has noted "very unusual & peculiar ephemeral material here - especially My Own Mag." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

No.56: William S. Burroughs / Beat Books ; Burroughs WS ; Breger U ; Gysin B ; Nuttall J ; Gibbs M ; Herman J ; Ploog J ; Weissner C ; Pelieu C., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52343-73466
Scope and Contents

The items offered in this catalogue include Burroughs own works as well as his contributions to other books and periodicals. The annotations are quite detailed and informative. There are particularly good annotations and date information on the issues of "My Own Mag," of which an incomplete run is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011