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This book is printed in the form of the writer's corrected typewritten manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first edition and first printing of the book in English that originally was written in French. The reader is requested to shuffle the pages like a deck of cards. the order of the pages will then assume the fate of the protagonist. B.S. Johnson also published a novel, "The Unfortunates," (1969) translated from the French in the same format as this book, unbound pages meant to be read in any order. Johnson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Arno Schmidt, considered by many to be the "German James Joyce," was born in 1914 and died in 1979. This book is printed in the form of the writer's corrected typewritten manuscript. This is one of Schmidt's "superbooks," a large format novel with unusual page layouts, illustrations, and puns a'plenty. Nowhere near as difficult as Zettel's Traum or Evening Edged in Gold, it's a rollicking tale of culture-clash set in the near future (with an extended flashback to 1969), and features a typical Schmidt protagonist (a walking encyclopedia of an old codger), two delightful 17-year-old girls, a visiting American Secretary of State nicknamed Isis, and many more. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is printed in the form of the writer's corrected typewritten manuscript. It is the English translation of "Abend mit Goldrand: eine MarchenPosse 55 Bilder aus der La/endlichkeit fur Gronner der Verschreibkunst," a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This copy is the first edition, first printing of the book. The book was reviewed by Publishers Weekly:What would it sound like if a foreigner wrote a novel in broken English? Foer answers this question to marvelous effect in his inspired though uneven first novel. Much of the book is narrated by Ukrainian student Alex Perchov, whose hilarious and, in their own way, pitch-perfect malapropisms flourish under the influence of a thesaurus. Alex works for his family's travel agency, which caters to Jews who want to explore their ancestral shtetls. Jonathan Safran Foer, the novel's other hero, is such a Jew an American college student looking for the Ukrainian woman who hid his grandfather from the Nazis. He, Alex, Alex's depressive grandfather and his grandfather's "seeing-eye bitch" set out to find the elusive woman. Alex's descriptions of this "very rigid search" and his accompanying letters to Jonathan are interspersed with Jonathan's own mythical history of his...

Scope and Contents The number of copies in this signed, second printing of the book is not stated. The copyright page differs from the first edition, that is also held by the Sackner Archive, in colored annotations and its text. A label on the dust jacket states "Signed by the author." he following reviews of the book appeared on the Amazon.com WEB site.Amazon.com. Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example,...

Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing of the British edition of the book that was only printed in soft cover format. Its cover is completely different from the American edition. It was signed in blue ink by Danielewski at a reading on 9/26/06 he gave for the launch of "Only Revolutions" held at Books & Books, Coral Gables FL. He further embellished his signature with a fownward arrow in green ink. The Sackners were present at this reading. The following reviews of the book appeared on the Amazon.com WEB site:Amazon.com. Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named...

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This book is printed in the form of the writer's corrected typewritten manuscript. The three unbound photocopied pages within the insert depict handwritten pages by Schmidt for this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The first section of this novel (36 pages) is composed without punctuation marks - only exaggerated spaces. The next section (42 pages) is written with no capital letters and only periods. The third section (39 pages) is presented with various marks, /, +,*- but no periods or commas. In the fourth section (40 pages), astericks, run on words, commas and lists are present but no periods. The final section (47 pages) has + % and other signs wothout periods and commas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first American edition of this book.eNotes internet summary: "Mobile: Study for the Representation of the United States has fifty chapters, and each chapter is more or less devoted to a different state, in alphabetical order, of the United States. The novel does not tell a story or relate a sequence of events. Instead, the disjointed details, mostly about small-town America, consist of information usually found in history books, atlases, encyclopedias, tourist brochures, and Howard Johnson menus. Some continuity is provided by a series of repetitions which are designed to illustrate the scope and diversity of the United States. For example, the first chapter is entitled "pitch dark in CORDOVA, ALABAMA, the Deep South" and that is all. The first word is not capitalized, nor is there a period at the end. The second chapter reads "pitch dark in CORDOVA, ALASKA, the Far North" and continues with a brief, nightmarish description of the land around Cordova. With no apparent...

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...

Scope and Contents Danielewski signed this book in green ink at a reading on 9/27/06 he gave for its launch held at Books & Books, Coral Gables FL. The Sackners were present at this reading. In this book, Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises two monologues, one by Sam and one by Hailey, both "Allmighty sixteen and freeeeee," each narrating the same road trip, or set of neo-globo-revolutionary events"”or a revolution's end: "Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it." Figuring out what's happening is a big part of reading the book. The verse-riffs narrations, endlessly alliterative and punning (like Joyce)...

Scope and Contents The end papers, one in gold and the other in green, contain mutiple circles of lists of alphabetical words. Each circle varies in fonts and shape. The book cover is a richly colored photographic landscape of objects such as yellow roses, butterflies, insects, a white mouse, and plant material. The Sackners were present at the author's reading at Books & Books in Coral Gables , Florida on 9/27/06. In this book, Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises two monologues, one by Sam and one by Hailey, both "Allmighty sixteen and freeeeee," each narrating the same road trip, or set of...

Scope and Contents The end papers, one in gold and the other in green, contain mutiple circles of lists of alphabetical words. Each circle varies in fonts and shape. The book cover is a richly colored photographic landscape of objects such as yellow roses, butterflies, insects, a white mouse, and plant materials. Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises two monologues, one by Sam and one by Hailey, both "Allmighty sixteen and freeeeee," each narrating the same road trip, or set of neo-globo-revolutionary events"”or a revolution's end: "Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it." Figuring out what's happening is...

Scope and Contents The end papers, one in gold and the other in green, contain mutiple circles of lists of alphabetical words. Each circle varies in fonts and shape. The book cover is a richly colored photographic landscape of objects such as yellow roses, butterflies, insects, a white mouse, and plant materials. Danielewski signed and inscribed this book in green ink in Sam's section and in orange ink in Hailey's section at a reading on 9/27/06 he gave for its launch held at Books & Books, Coral Gables FL. The Sackners were present at this reading. In this book, Danielewski deals with irrelevance of time in a fashion similar to Patchen's "Journal of Albion Moonlight." From Publishers Weekly: "A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's Glas and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to House of Leaves is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights"”and a similarly impressive tour de force. It comprises...

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The theme of this book is writing for an experimental film. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of two novellas, "Lag" and "Effect of Cellophane." Lag was written with only commas and Effect of Cellophane without punctuation. Both stories are printed without paragraph separations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was written using the cut-up technique popularized by William S Burroughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Arno Schmidt, considered by many to be the "German James Joyce," was born in 1914 and died in 1979. This book is printed in the form of the writer's corrected typewritten manuscript. The Sackner Archive also holds the original German edition of this book. This is one of Schmidt's "superbooks," a large format novel with unusual page layouts, illustrations, and puns a'plenty. Nowhere near as difficult as Zettel's Traum or Evening Edged in Gold, it's a rollicking tale of culture-clash set in the near future (with an extended flashback to 1969), and features a typical Schmidt protagonist (a walking encyclopedia of an old codger), two delightful 17-year-old girls, a visiting American Secretary of State nicknamed Isis, and many more. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.