Introduction: the secret of lightness -- Literature machines: StructurElism versus StructurAlism -- The punning muse: psychoanalysis and homophonic translation -- Surrealism's subject: two cohorts of the Oulipo -- Calvino at a crossroads: combinatorics and anticombinatorics -- Perec and Mathews: translation and analytic philosophy in the South Seas -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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This volume provides a readable yet rigorous account of the impact of the Oulipo, one of the most important groups of experimental writers of the late twentieth century.
Oulipo and modern thought.
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Oulipo (Association)-- Influence.
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French literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Literature, Experimental-- France-- History and criticism.