Sunday, November 7, 2010

Six Selections by the Oulipo (1961, 1973, 1981)

Oulipo = Ouvroir de Litterature Potentillem, Workshop for Potential Literature)

- workshop for potential literature

- break free of traditional constraints of literature

- "The idea of potential literature is to both analyze and synthesize constraints - drawn from current mathematics as well as from older writing techniques that never entered the literary mainstream."

- Raymond Queneau: used algorithmic techniques in his narratives.
- led to choose your own adventure style games and books

- Queneau's book A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems is the foundation of this movement.

- switching up relationships of reader, author, and text

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