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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Angelo / Johnson, B.S. ; Beckett S., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-31913-33438
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1964

Breath and Other Shorts / Beckett, Samuel., 1971

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Identifier: CC-23430-23874
Scope and Contents

Consists of four plays and a fragment of a prose piece. The play, Breath, was first performed at the Oxford Playhouse in March 1970. The text of this play has been woven onto a sweater by Astrid Furnival, commissioned by the Sackner Archive for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Ca Causa, Ca Causa / Crombie, John ; Aragon L ; Baudelaire C ; Beckett S ; Eluard P ; Jarry A ; Prevert J ; Proust M ; Rimbaud A., 1998

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Identifier: CC-46402-49127
Scope and Contents

This is a non-linear novel made up of phrases quoted from several French authors of the early 20th century. It is printed on Hahnmuhle paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

od Joyce'a do liberatury (From Joyce to Liberature) / Bazarnik, Katarzyna, editor ; Joyce J ; Cage J ; Jarry A ; Johnson BS ; Danielewski M ; Butor M ; Mallarme S ; Federman R ; Bazarnik K ; Fajfer Z ; Drozdz S ; Derrida J ; Barthes R ; Beckett S ; Schmidt A ; Sterne L., 2002

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Identifier: CC-43127-45182
Scope and Contents

This book is a collection of essays on Liberature and James Joyce's works held on Bloomsday in Krakow in 1999 and 2000. An English summary appears at the end of the book. The editor in her essay makes the point that all Joyce's books go round in circles beginning and ending with the same themes: family, death, resurrection or rebirth. The cover depicts a reproduction of Drozd's room installation of letters that was shown in the Beyond Geometry exhibition, LACMA and Miami Museum of Art 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

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