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Experimental fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:

Lanark: A Life in 4 Books, 1985

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Identifier: CC-31798-33316
Scope and Contents This is the first American edition of the novel originally published by Canongate Publishing in England in 1981. The visionary drawings reproduced in this book were made by Gray. Andrew Crumey WEB 1999 wrote the following. "Alasdair Gray was born on 28 December 1934 in Glasgow, and trained as a painter at the Glasgow School Of Art. He worked as an art teacher, muralist and theatrical scene painter (experiences which are reflected in novels such as "Lanark" and "1982, Janine"), and his illustrations for his own books (as well as his bold use of typography) form a crucial part of their unique appeal. In the early seventies, Gray attended an informal writers' group run by Philip Hobsbaum, along with James Kelman, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead, Agnes Owens and others. Work would be photocopied and distributed in advance for the group to discuss and criticise. Gray had already been working on "Lanark" since the fifties, and found Kelman's advice particularly helpful. The novel was finished...
Dates: 1985

Letter to Jacob Leed, returning poems: The Smithbox MS, 1966

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07344-7488
Scope and Contents

levy's handwritten letter to Jacob Leed on verso page 3 mentions waiting for a poem by Alan Ginsberg and putting out Egyptian Stroboscope. The Smithbox is an experimental non-fictional piece replete with run-on as well as obscene words. it includes a minimalist poem by Bob Barker and a visuonary line drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Life a User's Manual, 1987

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Identifier: CC-32004-33535
Scope and Contents Originally published in French in 1978, this novel is considered to be an outstanding example of twentieth century fiction in the tradition of Canterbury Tales and Ulysses. It is composed of a seies of stories that occur at the same time in an apartment building in the 17th arrondisement of Paris. Fictional but meaningful, the people and events are described in humorous and specific detail. The book is constructed like a puzzle and contains an index and a chronology.WikipedIa: Life A User's Manual (the original title is La Vie mode d'emploi) is Georges Perec's most famous novel, published in 1978, first translated into English by David Bellos in 1987. Its title page describes it as "novels", in the plural, the reasons for which become apparent on reading. Some critics have cited the work as an example of postmodern fiction, though Perec himself preferred to avoid labels and his only long term affiliation with any movement was with the Oulipo or OUvroir de LItterature POtentielle.La...
Dates: 1987

Morte per Elaboratore, 1968

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Identifier: CC-11436-11652
Scope and Contents

The text is set in multi-colored blocks of orange, rose or purple. Blocks of aqua are used with the words "cielo azzurro" and "cielo acqua." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

myesis (Vol.1), 2006

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Identifier: CC-45694-47902
Scope and Contents

myesis signifies layers and stages of fragmentation. Chapters or sections as fragments of the book; paragraphs as fragments of chapters; sentences as fragments of the paragraphs; phrases as fragments of the sentences; words as fragments of the phrases; letters as fragments of the words. I read the empty spaces. Myesis is an excessive, minimalist writing. Leftwich interweaves Greek mythology, Judaism, comments on music and performance with language poetry and the rules of poetry . He provides several long quotes from contemporary poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

No.111 2.7.93-10.20.96, 1997

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Identifier: CC-27596-28673
Scope and Contents This book is described by Charles Bernstein as"The Borscht belt meets concept art in this delirious digest of obsessive gaiety, this useless collection of perishable information, this wily catalog of everyday life, this alphabetic bestiary of the ribs, joints, sinews, and bones of language's alluring lore. {This] could be the longest, and maybe the last, list poem of the 20th century. On the way, Goldsmith has reinvented prosody - conting by 1's 2's 3's, and up - as he inventories the raring rush of rippling, or is it ripping?, words: inchoate yet coalescing, a fractal romp on just this side of virtual reality." All the phrases end in sounds end in the sound R and are organized alphabetically by syllable-count beginning with A, aar, air and ending with a "7,228 syllable tour de force of astonishing proportions. But in the spirit of George Perec...Goldsmith uses these rules to expose the reader/listener/viewer to the marvels and vagaries of language in the late twentieth century....
Dates: 1997

Only Connect, 1984

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Identifier: CC-18994-19373
Scope and Contents

The book is bound into a folder in four sections so that the pages may be turned in random order thereby constantly changing the story. This format is the same as the booklets with spiral spines on all borders published by Kickshaws. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Plans for the Night , 1987

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Identifier: CC-28424-29668
Scope and Contents

The pages are blue architectural papers and contain, in addition to the hand printed story, architectural drawings, geometric figures, interior spaces, figurative drawings blended in a surrealistic manner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Poor Things, 1992

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Identifier: CC-31637-33139
Scope and Contents

The book was designed by the author and illustrated by William Strang. Set in and around Glasgow and the Mediterranean in the early 1880's, it describes the love lives of two Scottish doctors and a 25 year old woman who was created by one of them from human remains. The illustrations depict anatomic dissected parts of the body and portraits of individuals mentioned in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

prosa, konstellationen, montagen dialektgedichte studien, 1970

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Identifier: CC-24328-24780
Scope and Contents

This book includes two works of Achleitner, "o- i-studie"(1960) & "schwer schwerz" (1960), the manuscripts of which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Seasons: a Homer-erotic Thriller, 2001

 Item — Box 277: [Barcode: 31858072460615]
Identifier: CC-35524-37264
Scope and Contents

This is the prototype novel of psychosexual intrigue and sexual abuse. The letter from Jan McLaughlin to the Sackners thanks them for hiring and firing her from work as assistant to the curator of the Archive so that she could produce something of substance in her life as writer, poet and performer in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

See the Old Lady Decently, 1975

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Identifier: CC-32669-34255
Scope and Contents

This is semi-biographical novel of Johnson's mother. It was last novel written by Johnson who committed suicide shortly after its release. Michael Bakewell wrote an introductory essay that provides an explanation of the story. The shaped, concrete poems portray a breast as a metaphor for the cause of Johnson's mother's death from breast cancer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Serious Dissertations on Something or Other / Cobbing, Bob., July 1989

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17572-17938
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of the book first published earlier in the year. It consists of interviews devised with the cut-up technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: July 1989