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This is the German translation of "Double or Nothing." The folded loose sheet depicts colored alphabet pasta. The text is typeset rather than photocopied from a typed manuscript as it is in the original American publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents From Publishers Weekly review. "Novelist R"šmond Namredef, the narrator of this endlessly inventive and unorthodox fiction, is on his way back to France after having lived in the United States for 10 years. R"šmond is not returning in the role of the rich American, although he claims to have a wealthy American girlfriend, Susan. In the U.S., it seems, he supported himself through a series of odd jobs, among them one as a jazz musician. These autobiographical details are imparted by R"šmond to a "professional listener" in a number of cafes in Paris. Federman has adopted Raymond Roussel's trick of telling a story for the sake of its digressions. The digressions here include R"šmond's childhood, his life in hiding from the Nazis during the occupation, his multitudinously scheming extended family and his Aunt Rachel's legendary existence. Aunt Rachel escaped from the orphanage in which R"šmond's mother, Marguerite, was also kept and proceeded to enjoy a mysterious international career....

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Described as "a novel improvised in sad laughter," this novel reflects the life of Federman and his fertile imaginative style. Written in the first person, it includes an addenda of fictitious and real people mentioned in the story, literary works, places and a chronology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This novel is printed as a facsimile of the typewritten manuscript with its experimental layouts. From the Publisher: "Double or Nothing" is a concrete novel in which the words become physical materials on the page. Federman gives each of these pages a shape or structure, most often a diagram or picture. The words move, cluster, jostle, and collide in a tour de force full of puns, parodies, and imitations. Within these startling and playful structures Federman develops two characters and two narratives. These stories are simultaneous and not chronological. The first deals with the narrator and his effort to make the book itself; the second, the story the narrator intends to tell, presents a young man's arrival in America. The narrator obsesses over making his narrative to the point of not making it. All of his choices for the story are made and remade. He tallies his accounts and checks his provisions. His questioning and indecision force the reader into another radical sense of...

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The first printing of this 3rd edition took place in 1992; this is the second printing. The first (Swallow Press) and second O(Greno Verlag) editions are also held by gthe Sacknsr Archive. This third typeset edition edion does not well reflect the typewritten form of the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This novel is printed as a facsimile of the typewritten manuscript with its experimental layouts. From the Publisher: "Double or Nothing" is a concrete novel in which the words become physical materials on the page. Federman gives each of these pages a shape or structure, most often a diagram or picture. The words move, cluster, jostle, and collide in a tour de force full of puns, parodies, and imitations. Within these startling and playful structures Federman develops two characters and two narratives. These stories are simultaneous and not chronological. The first deals with the narrator and his effort to make the book itself; the second, the story the narrator intends to tell, presents a young man's arrival in America. The narrator obsesses over making his narrative to the point of not making it. All of his choices for the story are made and remade. He tallies his accounts and checks his provisions. His questioning and indecision force the reader into another radical sense of...

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A dialogue is presented in lowercase letters with the lines of type zig-zagging down the page in three vertical sections. This poster was presented as a Supplement to the Sixth Assembling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A dialogue is presented in lowercase letters with the lines of type zig-zagging down the page in three vertical sections. This poster was presented as a Supplement to the Sixth Assembling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes a clipping of a review that appeared in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. -- 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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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.