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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 568 Collections and/or Records:

Comic-Gedichte / Eichler, Norbert., 1971

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Identifier: CC-14361-14670
Scope and Contents

The calligraphy includes several different typefaces reminiscent of that utilized in the German periodical of the early sixties, Rhinoceros. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Communicating Vessels / Breton, Andre ; Mary Ann Caws, translator ; Geoffrey T. Harris, translator ; Eckersley R., 1990

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Identifier: CC-31795-33311
Scope and Contents

This proof copy with justified margins and paragraph signs rather than indents or spaces was designed by Richard Eckersley. Mary Ann Caws writes in the introduction that among the writings of Breton, this work is the most philosophical and political; the whole edifice of Surrealism is based on its theories. Breton attempts to establish a communicating vessel or "conduction wire between the far to distant wirlds if waking and sleep, exterior and interior reality, reason and madness, the assurance of knowledge and of love, of life for life and the revolution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Compact, 1976

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Identifier: CC-51105-72187
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint from the first edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Composition No.1 / Saporta, Marc; Richard Howard, translator., 1963

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Identifier: CC-35473-37209
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1963

Continuum / Trevor, Stan., 1991

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Identifier: CC-01468-1501
Scope and Contents

Two of the poems in this book, "In This House" and "Dancer" are reminiscent of the poetic style of John Giorno. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Cozette de Charmoy with Concrete Poetic Landscape Rubberstamp Print, 1995

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Identifier: CC-16402-16752
Scope and Contents

The catalogue has several introductory essays including one contributed by Marvin Sackner. Other sections include a) Books, b) Unique Manuscripts & Books, and c) Drawings, Prints, Posters & Miscellaneous. Fifty catalogues had an accompanying print. The print is a red and blue colored concrete poetic landscape image formed by rubberstamping words in French and English. The unbound pages provide translations for the critical essays written in French. The print is stored separately in a de Charmoy box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Cryptesthesies II / Constans, Berenice., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19987-20375
Scope and Contents

The artist has used a large variety of calligraphic styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Cryptonomicon / Stephenson, Neal., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32962-34580
Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing of this book that consisted of 50,000 copies. Stephenson's signature, signed on a plate that is collaged to a page near the front cover, was distributed by the publisher in 250 signed and numbered copies; the Sackner copy is unnumbered. This novel consists of at least three interwoven stories. One is set during World War II from the American perspective, another from World War II from the Japanese perspective, and the third from an American perspective of Internet communications. All stories involve encryption and codes. The author writes a fictionalized account of Alan Turing's role in computers and codes.Therese Littleton wrote the following review for Amazon.com. Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, cryptanalyst extraordinaire, and gung ho, morphine-addicted marine...
Dates: 1999

Curtains / Crombie, John., 1985

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Identifier: CC-17962-18332
Scope and Contents

The text evolves page by page from pale gray to white on black ground to disintegrated letters replaced by abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Curvd H&Z: Novel. No.159/Nov / bp Nichol., 1982

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Identifier: CC-18269-18641
Scope and Contents

Also designated Toybox #2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Das Marchen / Taylor, Thomas Lowe ; Nash, Susan Smith., 1993

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Identifier: CC-01547-1582
Scope and Contents

This is a book in the Chapbook series of the press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993