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All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo: 1963 - 2018

The first collection in English to offer a life-size picture of the OuLiPo — ouvroir de littérature potentielle, or workshop for potential literature — in its historical and contemporary incarnations, and the first in any language to represent all of its members (numbering 41 as of April 2018 ).

Combining fiction, poetry, essays and lectures, and never-published internal correspondence — along with the acrobatically constrained writing and complexly structured narratives that have become synonymous with oulipian practice — this volume shows a unique group of thinkers and artists at work and at play, meditating on and subverting the facts of life, love, and the group itself. It’s an unprecedentedly intimate and comprehensive glimpse at the breadth and diversity of one of world literature’s most vital, adventurous presences.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 353
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781944211523
  • Genres
  • anthologies, poetry, france
  • Release date
  • 2018