The Whimsy and Discipline of Anne Garréta’s Not One Day
If people cannot be captured, if “there are only erasures,” then might as well seek them in elisions, where their potential remains.
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Posts Tagged: Oulipo
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jericho Parms
What is lost still has substance, is malleable, can take on new impressions, and be molded again to our experience, often resulting in the most lasting force that determines how we see the world.
...moreNo Pronouns
Using Anne Garréta’s 1986 novel, Sphinx, as a springboard, Stephanie Hayes explores the superpowers of gender-blank characters for the Atlantic. Sphinx’s recent translator, Emma Ramadan, describes how what began as an Oulipan constraint to avoid gender became a freedom from preconceived notions of male and female, and sometimes, a guessing game. When gender’s not there, it […]
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Sphinx by Anne Garréta
Connor Goodwin reviews Sphinx by Anne Garréta today in Rumpus Books.
...moreA Formula for Imagination
At the Ploughshares blog, Lara Palmquist discusses Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (The Workshop of Potential Literature), or Oulipo, a collective of mathematicians and writers who have been creating works of literature from self-imposed restrictions and formulas since 1960.
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Exercises in Style
Exercises in Style has been one of the most beloved books in the New Directions catalog since they first published it in 1981.
...moreA History of Potential
In his new history of the experimental writing movement, Oulipo, Many Subtle Channels, Daniel Levin Becker goes where few have gone.
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