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This is Johnson's second novel. It recounts the life of Albert Angelo, a school teacher in several styles of writing and varied page layouts. The novel comprises five chapters, viz., prologue, exposition, development, disintegration, and coda. The prologue is mainly laid out like a drama. The first section of the chapter 2, exposition, is written in first person singular. The second section, that is written in second person singular, also includes some unusual punctuation marks. The third section is written in the third person singular, the fourth in first person plural, the fifth in second person plural, and the sixth in third person plural. Chapter 2, development, is mainly printed in two columns, the left sided tells the main story, the right sided has comments that are printed in Italics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This biography of Georges Perec (1936-1982), novelist, poet, verbal gamesman, and master puzzler, whom Italo Calvino called, 'so singular a literary personality that he bears absolutely no resemblance to anyone else,' is very lucidly presented. The biographer, David Bellos, also the English translator of Perec's books, has written such an interesting book that it almost reads like a fictional account of Perec's life. It is extremely well researched and documented. Examples of Perec's typewriter art, which he did mostly while working as a technician in a Neurophysiology Laboratory in Paris are printed on pages 260 and 690. Alexander Laurence wrote the following book review printed on the Internet 1999.We're all familiar with the term "slacker" and characteristics of the twenty-nothings who populate Douglas Coupland's novel Generation X. These are all attempts to capture a vibrant youth culture that adds to the present time. But what if I were to tell you that the French writer,...

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The image on this poster is a reproduction of a portrait by Tom Phillips entitled "Samuel Beckett at the Riverside Studio." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is designed, hand set and hand printed by John Crombie. The text by Beckett was first printed in 1970. This edition was printed on Kickshaw's Golding Press in a cloverleaf presentation. Stored with Crombie publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the second edition of a book with the same title printed letterpress in 1988. Crombie describes the history of the neighborhood and the artists and writers who lived there. He provides the history of printing by the Kickshaws Press whose shop was initially housed in Montparnasse. The Press was closed in 1994 but Crombie still retains a small shop in another location in Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.