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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

A Book in Which Nothing Happens / Anonymous; Thaler M; Perec G; Castillejo JL; Wright C., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43321-45380
Scope and Contents

This article reviews Michel Thaler's "The Train From Nowhere" (in French and held by the Sackner Archive). This book does not have any verbs following in the tradition of Pindar ("Ode Minus Sigma"), Lope Carpio ( five novels without vowels). Gottlob Burmann (130 poems without r's), George Perec ("La Disparition," "Les Revantes"), Charles Vincent Wright ("Gadsby"). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

All Talk, No Action: A Funeral for Verbs, with Few Pallbearers / Bryan-Low, Cassell; Morice, Anne-Michele; Perec G; Thaler M., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42646-44664
Scope and Contents

This is a front page review of "Le Train de Nulle Part" (The Train to Nowhere) by Michel Thaler, the non de plume of Michel Dansel. The novel is written without any verbs - heavy on exclamation points and dashes. It is of the same genre as George Perec's work without any e's. The review itself is written without verbs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Le Train de Nulle Part / Thaler, Michel ; Breton A ; Aragon L., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42677-44695
Scope and Contents

This book written without any verbs relies heavily on exclamation points, dashes and question marks. Michel Thaler is the non de plume for Michel Dansel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004