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Title: Oulipo Compendium by Harry Mathews, Alastair Brotchie ISBN: 0-947757-96-1 Publisher: Atlas Pr Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: zany literary fun
Comment: Oulipo is great! This book is just so full of STUFF. What they did was just spend a lot of time thinking of wild ways to inspire & direct writing, & what we're left with is this labyrinth of experimrents. For me, the one of the greatest things gleaned from Oulipo is just the general sense that therec are sooo many more conceptual & logistical systems out there that you haven't even touched upon yet but that are waiting.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Book of Ways
Comment: If you ever come across Arthur Brand's little article on the Oulipo, cherish it. I read it back in the late 80s, in an anthology somewhere, and I've never been able to find it since. It whet my appetite for these crazy masters of restricted composition, who spend their time devising totally new ways to write. This isn't a book for the "poetry of everyday life" set, or writing workshop clones. It's a book, as Brand said, for "mad scientists, mathematicians, monster-makers and angels." It's a writer's encylopedia, stuffed with ideas, strategies, graphs, games, machines, etc for making poetry and fiction.
Rating: 5
Summary: Please read this review.
Comment: Before reading this book, I didn't know anything about Oulipo....do you? If not, here's the gist: Oulipo are a bunch of slightly crazy people who want to find new and fun ways to write stuff. So, they create all these interesting and zany techniques to generate their writing...to me, it seems similar to how modern composers generate notes and rhythms using tone rows and stuff like that. This book is a "compendium" of these techniques, Oulipo authors, their works, etc. I think it's great. I'd recommend it to writers who want to try something new (as opposed to just writing "from the heart", or whatever) and I'd also recommend it to people who like modern, formalist type stuff. Have fun.
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Title: Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature (French Literature Series) by Warren F. Motte, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews ISBN: 1564781879 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright ISBN: 0811207897 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: February, 1981 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Writing Fiction (6th Edition) by Janet Burroway, Susan Weinberg ISBN: 0321117956 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 10 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $56.00 |
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