OULIPO PA

by MOTTE,WARREN

• ISBN13: 9781564781871
• ISBN10: 1564781879
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1998-05-17
• Publisher: JOHN MUIR

Summary

This is an amazing anthology of writings by members of the group known as Oulipo, including among others Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Put simply, this group, which was founded in Paris in 1960, approaches creative writing in a way that still has yet to make its impact in the United States and its creative writing programs. Rather than inspiration, rather than experience, rather than self-expression, the Oulipians view imaginative writing as an exercise dominated by "constraints." Quite commonly, they attempt to write stories,

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
NOEL ARNAUD
Foreword	xi	(5)
Acknowledgments	xvi
Introduction	1	(22)
A Note on the Translations	23	(2)
HARRY MATHEWS
Liminal Poem	25	(1)
FRANCOIS LE LIONNAIS
Lipo: First Manifesto	26	(3)
FRANCOIS LE LIONNAIS
Second Manifesto	29	(3)
JEAN LESCURE
Brief History of the Oulipo	32	(8)
MARCEL BENABOU
Rule and Constraint	40	(8)
COLLECTIVE
The College de Pataphysique and the Oulipo	48	(3)
RAYMOND QUENEAU
Potential Literature	51	(14)
JACQUES BENS
Queneau Oulipian	65	(9)
FRANCOIS LE LIONNAIS
Raymond Queneau and the Amalgam of Mathematics and Literature	74	(5)
JACQUES ROUBAUD
Mathematics in the Method of Raymond Queneau	79	(18)
GEORGES PEREC
History of the Lipogram	97	(12)
JACQUES BENS
CLAUDE BERGE
PAUL BRAFFORT
Recurrent Literature	109	(6)
CLAUDE BERGE
For a Potential Analysis of Combinatory Literature	115	(11)
HARRY MATHEWS
Mathews's Algorithm	126	(14)
PAUL FOURNEL
Computer and Writer: The Centre Pompidou Experiment	140	(3)
ITALO CALVINO
Prose and Anticombinatorics	143	(10)
RAYMOND QUENEAU
The Relation X Takes Y for Z	153	(3)
RAYMOND QUENEAU
A Story as You Like It	156	(3)
PAUL FOURNEL
JEAN-PIERRE ENARD
The Theater Tree: A Combinatory Play	159	(4)
Oulipians and Their Works	163	(32)
Notes	195	(14)
Glossary	209	(6)
Index	215