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All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo: 1963 2018
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Since its inception in Paris in 1960, the OuLiPoouvroir de littrature potentielle, or workshop for potential literaturehas continually expanded our sense of what writing can do. Its produced, among many other marvels, a detective novel without the letter e (and a sequel of sorts without a, i, o, u, or y); an epic poem structured by the Parisian mtro system; a story in the form of a tarot reading; a poetry book in the form of a game of go; and a suite of sonnets that would take almost 200 million years to read completely.Lovers of literature are likely familiar with the novels of the bestknown OulipiansItalo Calvino, Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, Raymond Queneauand perhaps even the small number of texts available in English on the group, including Warren Mottes Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature and Daniel Levin Beckers Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature. But the actual work of the group in its full, radiant collectivity has never before been showcased in English. (The State of Constraint, a dossier in issue 22 of McSweeneys Quarterly Concern, comes closest.)Enter All That is Evident is Suspect: the first collection in English to offer a lifesize picture of the group 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 neverpublished internal correspondencealong with the acrobatically constrained writing and complexly structured narratives that have become synonymous with oulipian practicethis 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. Its an unprecedentedly intimate and comprehensive glimpse at the breadth and diversity of one of world literatures most vital, adventurous presences.DISCUSSED: Sharks as poets and vice versa, the Brisbane pitch drop experiment, novel classifications for real or imaginary libraries, the monumental sadness of difficult loves, the obsolescence of the novel, the symbolic significance of the cupandball game, holiday closures across the Francophone world, what happens at Fahrenheit 452, Warren G. Hardings dark night of the soul, Marcel Duchamps imperviousness to conventional spacetime laws, bilingual palindromes, cartoon eodermdromes, oscillating poems, mtro poems, metric poems, literary madness, straw cultivation.
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