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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 577 Collections and/or Records:

Eden, Eden, Eden / Guyotat, Pierre ; Graham Fox, translator., 1995

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Identifier: CC-33235-34865
Scope and Contents

First published in French in 1970 by Editions Gallimard, "this novel of atrocity and extreme obscenity is set in the dirt of a majestically tainted zone of the Algerian desert in a time of civil warfare.. and brings scenes of brutal violence into intimate collision with relentless acts of prostitutional sex and degradation." Guyotat writes in a style of stream of consciousness without structured sentences in obscene, harsh, descriptive language. There are no periods ending sentences; only semi-colons, commas and dashes are employed as punctuation marks. The book was banned in France for eleven years. The novel is a collection of phrases. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Ein Griff / Czurda, Elfriede., 1978

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Identifier: CC-18049-18419
Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Entrails / Gauvreau, Claude ; Ray Ellenwood, translator., 1981

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Identifier: CC-32080-33615
Scope and Contents

This book is a collection of 26 "dramatic objects" for the stage and radio using fantasy, symbolism, mystery, violence and humor. The pieces, written between 1944 and 1946, are daring experiments with language. Gauvreau was a member of an avant garde Montreal artistic group who called themselves "Les Automatistes." "Entrails" is Gauvreau's first full book published in English. It includes a biography of the poet and is illustrated with his automatic drawings.The book is part of a series entitled Coach House Quebec Translations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Eros & Ares / Miccini, Eugenio., 1979

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Identifier: CC-38202-40098
Scope and Contents

This work is a kitsch romantic novel, set in Italy in the forties, composed mostly with images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

eros/ ion / And, Miekal ; Damon, Maria., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48829-69864
Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Evacuation Routes: A User's Guide / Nielsen, A.L.., 1992

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Identifier: CC-05714-5821
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Evening Edged In Gold / Schmidt, Arno ; John Woods, translator., 1980

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Identifier: CC-43044-45089
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Everything is Illuminated, 2002

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Identifier: CC-38971-40908
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...
Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

Example / Shea, Michael., 1970

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Identifier: CC-53080-74226
Scope and Contents

One copy with a green colored image of a feline is stored in box booklets. Three copies with images in red, green and black colors, respectively, are stored in a Depew box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Except by Talking / Beckett, Tom., 1986

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Identifier: CC-21927-22339
Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Experiment in Random Texts / Anonymous; Burroughs WS; Smith P., 1981

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Identifier: CC-24808-25261
Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

eXpeRimeNtaL (basEmeNt). No.1/Feb / CL Champion, editor ; Hill C ; Murphy S ; Berry J ; Bennett JM ; Grumman B ; Huth G ; Kostelanetz R ; Franke C ; Kopaska-Merkel D ; Winkler C ; Weinman P ; Byrum J ; Sollfrey S ; Phillips W., 1991

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Identifier: CC-30665-32107
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Experimentelle Texte: Manifest des Scheiterns. No.40 / Gustav Jacobson., 1995

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Identifier: CC-14388-14697
Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Experiments In Prose / Wildman, Eugene, editor ; Kaplan B ; Gerz J ; Bory JF ; Arias-Misson A ; Wildman E ; Kostelanetz R ; Katz S ; Blaine J ; Doria C ; Burkhardt K., 1969

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Identifier: CC-40857-42834
Scope and Contents

The content of the fiction in this book is deemed experimental by the editor. In general, it does not fall under the classifications of postmodernist fiction as we know it today (2003). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Experiments In Prose / Wildman, Eugene, editor ; Kaplan B ; Gerz J ; Bory JF ; Arias-Misson A ; Wildman E ; Kostelanetz R ; Katz S ; Blaine J ; Doria C ; Burkhardt K., 1969

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Identifier: CC-40858-42835
Scope and Contents

The content of the fiction in this book is deemed experimental by the editor. In general, it does not fall under the classifications of postmodernist fiction as we know it today (2003). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, 2005

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Identifier: CC-43955-46066
Scope and Contents This is a tender, sad, briliant story of the inner life of a young boy after the death of his beloved father in the 9/11 tragedy of the Twin towers destruction in New York.From Publishers Weekly: Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer's bestselling Everything Is Illuminated, is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. Like the second-language narrator of Illuminated, Oskar turns his naïvely precocious vocabulary to the understanding of historical tragedy, as he searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks, a quest that intertwines with the story of his grandparents, whose lives were blighted by the firebombing of Dresden. Foer embellishes the narrative with evocative graphics, including photographs, colored highlights and passages of illegibly overwritten text, and takes his unique flair for the poetry of miscommunication to...
Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, 2005

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Identifier: CC-43956-46067
Scope and Contents This is a tender, sad, briliant story of the inner life of a young boy after the death of his beloved father in the 9/11 tragedy of the Twin towers destruction in New York.From Publishers Weekly: Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer's bestselling Everything Is Illuminated, is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. Like the second-language narrator of Illuminated, Oskar turns his naïvely precocious vocabulary to the understanding of historical tragedy, as he searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks, a quest that intertwines with the story of his grandparents, whose lives were blighted by the firebombing of Dresden. Foer embellishes the narrative with evocative graphics, including photographs, colored highlights and passages of illegibly overwritten text, and takes his unique flair for the poetry of miscommunication to...
Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

F/Ear This: A Collection of Unheard Music, Unwritten Words and Unseen Images Inspired by Fear / Baroni, Vittore ; Pandin, Marco ; Ackerman A ; Hagglund SG., 1988

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Identifier: CC-23063-23500
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Fiction Texts 1966-1978 / Breakwell, Ian., 1978

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Identifier: CC-21002-21411
Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Fieldnotes, a forensic / Eichhorn, Kate., 2010

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Identifier: CC-55625-9999229
Scope and Contents

Amazon.com: FIELDNOTES, A FORENSIC charts one forensic anthropologist's series of descents in the first decade of the new millennium--a decade when forensic discourses and experts became ubiquitous in popular culture and on the daily news. But the edgy, passionate and erudite writer of these fieldnotes is no Temperance Brennan or Kathy Reichs. Part parody of popular discourses on the forensic anthropologist, part exegesis of the fieldnote genre, and part response to the natural and human catastrophes that unfolded during the writing of this book, Eichhorn's second collection continues to explore the poetics and affective dimensions of knowledge making at the edges of poetry and fiction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

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