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by Harry Matthews (Editor, Translator), Alastair Brotchie (Editor), Ian Monk (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Atlas Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (3 Nov 2005)
  • ISBN-10: 1900565188
  • ISBN-13: 978-1900565189
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 20.6 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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The Oulipo, or Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle, was founded by Raymond Queneau and friends in 1960 to find out how abstract restrictions could be combined with imaginative writing (as in George Perec's celebrated novel without the letter e). This Compendium is the first comprehensive survey of the group in any language. It includes extensive selections from the work of Oulipians, analyses of their important works and descriptions of their methods. Further sections cover related groups working in the fields of art, detective fiction, comic strips and even cuisine.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Whole New World, 27 Oct 2006
By A. Stockton "The Marfalouth" (Wales) - See all my reviews
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Fish. Well, that's what most people think of when they think of surreal literature, but this is more, much more, than that.

Until I discovered Georges Perec, and through him Oulipo, I was a happy consumer of mainstream literature. This book, though, has opened my eyes to the amount of literature that's out there that doesnt get the recognition it deserves.

Buy it. Read it. Hell, steal it if you have to, its worth a few months in jail for a life-changing experience isnt it?

More than surreal, more than literature, more than entertaining, more than mindfood, this compendium literally will open your eyes. Believe me, you will never look at the bookshelves in well known bookshops in the same way again.

Incidentally I wouldnt really condone stealing it, at least not when its as cheap as it is on Amazon now. Go on, treat yourself.

You owe it to yourself.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating and compelling guide to Oulipo and like groups, 11 Jan 1999
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Probably the best way for an English Language reader to get a sense of what Oulipo does at its best--you get to see how much more than a stunt the whole endeavor is. It includes much hard-to-find material, including a translation (!) of Queneau's One-hundrerd-trillion sonnets, and some neat experiments in severe overdetermination. It also includes the wonderful Skinhead Hamlet, by Richard Curtis. (Oddly, the editors--Harry Mathews is one of the major members of the workshop--say they can't track him down, but he's the screenwriter for Four Weddings and a Funeral, so shouldn't be too hard to find.) Lot's of interesting material on Georges Perec, and also on an American writer who wrote a novel in which no word is used more than once--a kind of hyper-Flaubertian enterprise.
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5.0 out of 5 stars rearrange your mind, 30 Jan 1999
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harry mathews and alastair brotchie have done something remarkable: structured a book according to its own logic. (rare, really.) the structure and content of this book will help clear the air of more than a few too-common brain farts, not the least of which is the opinion that formalism implies either exhaustion or conservativism. read this book. try some of the experiments. go get some of the other titles in the Atlas series. you will say fewer stupid things at parties, and care less about the times you do.
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