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This is the second edition of ta smaller in size of the book which was first published in 1970. It is the first edition of this larger size presentation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The covers and pages depict black typewriter ribbons that have been typed with seemingly random white letters even though the book is labeled a novel on the front cover. The ribbons are arranged in a variety of non-ordered layouts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This series was edited by Luciano Caruso. This booklet includes the poetic works of Caruso as well as Villa, Diacono and Martini. Stored with Luciano Caruso material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of Caruso's writing was taken from a poem by Villa, "Il Fuori il Dentro del Signo."(1972) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book consists of Villa's written texts and mathematical equations and Costa's surrealistic-like images of humanoid figures and abstract images engaged in coitus. Internet: Emilio Villa passed away on 14th January 2003. He had been born at Affori, near Milan in 1914. He spent his life in Milan, Florence, Sao Paolo (Brazil) and most of all in Rome, engaging in studies of Semitic - he was an exile from the Vatican Institute of Biblical Studies -- and early Greek philology and working actively with avant-garde artists both Italian and foreign. He carried out a remarkable prose translation of the Odyssey (1964) and he also translated some cuneiform tablets of the Accadic poem "Enuma Eli" (1939). Moreover he carried out a long labour of interpretation of some passages of the Bible, of the Pentateuch in particular. He contributed to several cultural reviews, such as "Frontispizio", "Letteratura", "Arti visive" (1953-56), to avant-garde magazines, such as "Ex" (1961-65) and...

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This book consists of Villa's written texts and mathematical equations and Costa's surrealistic-like images of humanoid figures and abstract images engaged in coitus. Although a label on the inside back cover calls for 200 copies signed by the authors, this copy is unsigned. Another copy of this book held by the Sackner Archive is signed by Villa and Costa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.