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...Moving and merging is like performing an organ transplant,” said Peabody parent Elena Saporta. “There’s always a risk of rejection. There’s always a chance the patient may never recover...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Parents Protest School Merger Plan | 4/2/2003 | See Source »

...years it has been the preoccupation of French novelists of the nouveau roman-Alain Robbe-Grillet, Mark Saporta, et al.73151;to build their fictions exclusively from facts, objects, appearances, surfaces and the impressions of the moment. Even when the method works, the result is long-winded; but it can have the illusionist beauty of pointillism that only makes sense as the onlooker steps back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spies and Surfaces | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

COMPOSITION #1 by Marc Saporta. Unpaged. Simon & Schuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dealer's Choice? | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

What is surprising about French Neo-Realist Marc Saporta's do-it-yourself novel-which by all logic should have been a boring nonbook-is that it turns out to be a provocative piece of literary gimcrackery. This is in large part due to Saporta's skill at clicking off brisk, precise, sensuous sentences with the cool ease of a man spinning coins on a marble table. But it owes much to his use of the literary come-on. On one page, for example, Dagmar is seen standing next to a Christmas tree. "Through the tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dealer's Choice? | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...writers of fiction. Neo-Realist Marguerite Duras' pure conversational tour de force. The Square, has resulted in at least one non-novel of string-thin chitchat. The laudable Neo-Realist potion of engaging the reader directly in the action of the book has led another disciple, Marc Saporta, to try to enlist his readers as coauthor. His latest "novel." coming out this year, is an unbound stack of sparsely written pages. Buyers will be invited to shuffle them as they please and then read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Neo-Realists | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

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