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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

Physical Language Laboratory: Listen: I know what you're thinking]. No.6 / Leda Black., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-41623-43613
Scope and Contents

The lift-up panels on the print depict a cartoon and an advertisement underneath them that has been collaged to the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Playtexts: Ludics in Contemporary Literature / Motte, Warren Jr. ; Perec G ; Derrida J ; Breton A ; Mathews H ; Calvino I., 1995

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Identifier: CC-32276-33837
Scope and Contents

Motte provides a critical analysis of Perec's lipogram novel, "La Disparition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Poor Things, 1992

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Identifier: CC-31637-33139
Scope and Contents

The book was designed by the author and illustrated by William Strang. Set in and around Glasgow and the Mediterranean in the early 1880's, it describes the love lives of two Scottish doctors and a 25 year old woman who was created by one of them from human remains. The illustrations depict anatomic dissected parts of the body and portraits of individuals mentioned in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Printed Head, The: PoemPoem. No.5 / Oskar Pastior., 1990

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Identifier: CC-34529-36228
Scope and Contents

The content of this book deals with the structure of imaginary poems; no punctuation is used. The work was translated by Malcolm Green. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

prosa, konstellationen, montagen dialektgedichte studien, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-24328-24780
Scope and Contents

This book includes two works of Achleitner, "o- i-studie"(1960) & "schwer schwerz" (1960), the manuscripts of which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Quelques instants encore de bonjeur / Crombie, John., 1999

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Identifier: CC-46403-49128
Scope and Contents

This copy is printed on Hahnmuhle paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Quo Vadis? Again / Faietti, Alberto., 1972

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Identifier: CC-11493-11709
Scope and Contents

The text of this novel is presented in stencilled letter typography in cartoon balloons. Each character is a blank silhouette, photographed in an interior or exterior landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Read My Lipograms / Kincaid, James R.; Perec G; Adair G., 1995

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Identifier: CC-08105-8265
Scope and Contents

This is a review of "A Void" by George Perec, translated from the French by Gilbert Adair. Perec has witten the novel as a lipogram without using the letter E throughout the work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Readies (edited and with an Afterword by Craig Saper) / Brown, Bob ; Saper C., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50347-71415
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of the 1931 edition of the book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009