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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

The Exterminator / Burroughs, William S. ; Gysin, Brion., 1960

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Identifier: CC-22623-23052
Scope and Contents

The text was written by Burroughs, the poems and calligraphic drawings were composed by Gysin. This book, a first edition, was published later in 1967 as a second edition. Includes four pages of Gysin's calligraphic drawings, rendered in black ink, dated 1960 that are in same style as Gysin's book of drawings "Exil" held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

The Fifity Year Sword / Danielewski, Mark Z.., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55530-7779
Scope and Contents Dispersed throughout the textual pages are 68 reproduction pages of stitched and/or pricked pages. In this story set in East Texas, a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller's tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches, the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.Alan Cheuse Dallas Morning News review: This is A seriously experimental confection of modern horror literature. . . . Composed mostly of dialogue, some attributed to various speakers, some not, some near-abstract drawings of needlework constructions, and a lot of white space"”all wrapped in the pages of a very classy piece of book production"”The Fifty Year Sword might be the oddest book of the year. In certain ways, it might be the most interesting and enjoyable. . . . I imagine people...
Dates: 2012

The First Book of Grabinoulor / Albert-Birot, Pierre ; Barbara Wright, translator., 1987

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Identifier: CC-24497-24950
Scope and Contents

First published by Atlas Press in London in 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The First Fragment: The Case for the Burial of Ancestors Book 1, 1985

 Item — Box 302: [Barcode: 31858073143590]
Identifier: CC-00117-121
Scope and Contents

Three wooden objects and a thimble are placed upright in a bed of beige colored gravel like a dessert landscape. The text is rubberstamped on paper inside the lid and reads "I am the grain of truth...I hold the vessels of history and shatter them at Inside the lid is a small coffin-like wooden box; a black box on the outside has a metal capital "F." This sculpture symbolizes the puppeteer, a founder of an imaginary civilization, the Hegamons, who is described on p. 17 of the book in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Golden Mean / Bantock, Nick., 1993

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Identifier: CC-23755-24202
Scope and Contents

The third and concluding volume of the correspondence between Griffin and Sabine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Hour Sets / Boyko, Michael C. ; White, Derek., 2007

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Identifier: CC-51017-72096
Scope and Contents

Derek White contributed the covers and 13 illustrations within the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

The House Party / Nuttall, Jeff ; Joyce J., 1975

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Identifier: CC-30693-32137
Scope and Contents

This novel deals with the theme of sexual perversity. Nuttall also incorporates cut-out texts from British newspapers and marginalia poetic comments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Image / Crombie, John ; Beckett, Samuel., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42102-44103
Scope and Contents

This book is an unauthorized translation by Crombie of the French edition by Beckett. It was not for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

The Journal of Albion Moonlight fifth edition, 1941

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Identifier: CC-55674-9999271
Scope and Contents

This is an anti-war novel in which the sense of the progression of time is exluded, i.e., characters appear to have died but resurface on later pages as if they never died at all. The book is a masterpiece of experimental writing on a par with the experimental fiction of James Joyce. This is the fifth editon, the number of copies is unknown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1941

The Louis Project / Weissner, Carl ; Herman, Jan., 1979

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Identifier: CC-50986-72064
Scope and Contents

This is a single sheet, folded three times and printed in blue and red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Malinsay Massacre / Wheatley, Dennis., 1981

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Identifier: CC-00346-354
Scope and Contents

This volume is a reprint of the detective novel first published in 1938. a near identical facsimile of the third Hutchinson crime dossier originally published 1938, with varying size leaves, numerous tipped in clues and a sealed solution, a collection of statements, photographs, plans, samples of exhibits, etc, together forming the quasi-crime file of Police Lieutenant Schwab of New York starting with investigating the murder of the fifth Earl of Malinsay, allowing the reader to view all the evidence and try to solve the crime, solution sealed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

The Oulipo Winter Journeys / Perec, Georges ; Ian Monk, translator ; Harry Mathews, translator ; John Sturrock, translator ; Bens J ; Mathews H ; Roubaud J., 2001

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Identifier: CC-55664-9999267
Scope and Contents Internet Peter Baker's translation of introduction: During the last week of August 1939, while rumors of war invaded Paris, a young literature professor, Vincent Degrael, was invited to spend several days at a property in the neighborhood of le Havre that belonged to the parents of one of his colleagues, Denis Borrade. The eve of his departure, while he was exploring the library of his hosts searching for one of the books that one has always promised oneself to read, but which one generally only has time to flip through the pages negligently next to the fire before going to make up the fourth at bridge, Degrael fell upon a slim volume entitled The Winter Voyage, whose author, Hugo Vernier, was absolutely unknown to him, but the first pages of which made such a strong impression on him that he barely took the time to excuse himself from his friend and his hosts before going to read it in his room. The Winter Voyage was a sort of first-person narrative, situated in a...
Dates: 2001