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  • Paperback: 221 pages
  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press; New edition edition (3 Sep 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1564781879
  • ISBN-13: 978-1564781871
  • Product Dimensions: 22 x 15 x 1.8 cm
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The literary group known as Oulipo, was foun ded in Paris in 1960 to pursue writing in a way that contras ts strongly with the Anglo-American tradition. The examples included in this collection all display some form of literar y constraint '
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3.0 out of 5 stars not as good as the oulipo compendium, 14 Mar 2001
If like me you must read everything that you can about the OULIPO, and you have to read it in english, curse my backward education, then you will want to get this book. It is somewhat more academic than the compendium, containing manifestos and longer learned papers than the compendium, it also contains an illuminating plagerism algorithm dreamt up by Harry Mathews also there is some good stuff about Queneau's conbinatoric plots.

Where the OULIPO compendium ed H Mathews, is capacious and joyous full of examples and potential this tome is slight and mildly interesting.

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5.0 out of 5 stars If you have any interest in fiction as a reader or writer, buy this., 7 Aug 2006
Tempted to learn French, but you're too lazy? Love the French and it's authors? Want to know more about what your pretentious friend gabbles on about, but were to afraid to ask? Well, here you go. Suffering from writers block, then pick an equation!

I recommend you buy Atlas Press masterwork the Oulipo Compendium at the same time, along with a couple of classic Oulipo novels like Life a Users Manual by Perec or If on a Winter's Day by Calvino. Poetry: The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis by Jacques Roubaud. Essay: Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books by Marcel Benabou. There, that should be enough for now... Now, go learn French (or at least try learning English better, Oulipo will teach you how little you know).
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