Book Reviews
- David Bellos: Georges Perec**
A Life in Words
- Paul Fournel: Dear Reader
- an old-fashioned publisher faces change
- Harry Mathews, Alastair Brotchie: Oulipo Compendium**
- people, works, and forms, with extensive examples
- Harry Mathews: Tlooth
- wildly inventive games with language, narrative, and ideas
- Warren F. Motte Jr: Oulipo
A Primer of Potential Literature
- Georges Perec: A Void*
- a lipogram, a novel written without using the letter e
- Georges Perec: Three
Which Moped? The Exeter Text. A Gallery Portrait.
- Georges Perec: Winter Journeys
- an inventive Oulipian medley
- Mark Rappolt: Georges Perec and Paris*
- criticism, poetry, fiction, architecture, photography
The Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle or Oulipo was a group of
French writers and mathematicians devoted to the discovery of new literary
forms through the conscious use of formal constraints, exploration of the
connections between mathematics and literature, and a playful approach
to writing.