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Oulipo

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Oulipo (short for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: "workshop of potential literature") is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works using constrained writing techniques. [1]

59 relations: 'Pataphysics, A Void, Albert-Marie Schmidt, André Blavier, Anne F. Garréta, Ascender (typography), Atelier national de reproduction des thèses, Étienne Lécroart, Belgium, Bernard Cerquiglini, Cerisy-la-Salle, Chess, Claude Berge, Constrained writing, Constraint, Daniel Levin Becker, Descender, Eduardo Berti, Engineer, Exercises in Style, François Le Lionnais, Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, Hervé Le Tellier, Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, Ian Monk, Intellectual, Italo Calvino, Jacques Bens, Jacques Jouet, Jacques Roubaud, Jean Lescure, Jean Queval, Knight's tour, Life a User's Manual, Lipogram, Luc Étienne, Marcel Bénabou, Marcel Duchamp, Mathematics, Michèle Audin, Moby-Dick, Novelist, Oskar Pastior, Oubapo, Ougrapo, Outrapo, Ouxpo, Palindrome, Paul Fournel, ..., Pierre Rosenstiehl, Professor, Raymond Queneau, Sonnet, Stanley Chapman, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, University, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Univocalic. Expand index (9 more) »

'Pataphysics

Pataphysics or pataphysics (pataphysique) is a difficult to define literary trope invented by French writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907).

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A Void

A Void, translated from the original French La Disparition (literally, "The Disappearance"), is a 300-page French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without using the letter e (except for the author's name), following Oulipo constraints.

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Albert-Marie Schmidt

Albert-Marie Schmidt (10 October 1901 – 8 February 1966) was a French linguist and one of the founding members of the Oulipo.

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André Blavier

André Blavier (23 October 1922 – 12 June 2001) was a Belgian poet.

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Anne F. Garréta

Anne F. Garréta (born 1962) is a French novelist and a member of the experimental literary group Oulipo.

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Ascender (typography)

In typography, an ascender is the portion of a minuscule letter in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a font.

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Atelier national de reproduction des thèses

The French Atelier National de Réproduction des Thèses (ANRT), the national reproduction centre for PhD theses, was a public body under the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (department of scientific and technical information and documentation network) until 2017.

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Étienne Lécroart

Étienne Lécroart (born 1960) is a French cartoonist.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Bernard Cerquiglini

Bernard Cerquiglini (born 8 April 1947 in Lyon, France), is a French linguist.

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Cerisy-la-Salle

Cerisy-la-Salle is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.

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Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Claude Berge

Claude Jacques Berge (5 June 1926 – 30 June 2002) was a French mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory.

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Constrained writing

Constrained writing is a literary technique in which the writer is bound by some condition that forbids certain things or imposes a pattern.

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Constraint

Constraint may refer to.

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Daniel Levin Becker

Daniel Levin Becker (born in 1984 in Chicago) is an American writer, translator and musical critic.

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Descender

In typography, a descender is the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font.

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Eduardo Berti

Eduardo Berti (1964) is an Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.

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Exercises in Style

Exercises in Style (Exercices de style), written by Raymond Queneau, is a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style.

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François Le Lionnais

François Le Lionnais (3 October 1901 – 13 March 1984) was a French chemical engineer and writer.

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Georges Perec

Georges Perec (7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist.

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Harry Mathews

Harry Mathews (February 14, 1930 – January 25, 2017) was an American writer.

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Hervé Le Tellier

Hervé Le Tellier (born 21 April 1957) is a French writer and linguist, and a member of the international literary group Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, which translates roughly as "workshop of potential literature").

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Hundred Thousand Billion Poems

A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems or One hundred million million poems (original French title: Cent mille milliards de poèmes) is a book by Raymond Queneau, published in 1961.

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Ian Monk

Ian Monk (born 1960) is a British writer and translator, based in Paris, France.

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Intellectual

An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about society and proposes solutions for its normative problems.

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Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels.

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Jacques Bens

Jacques Bens (25 March 1931 – 26 July 2001) was a French writer and poet.

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Jacques Jouet

Jacques Jouet in 2012. Jacques Jouet (born 9 October 1947) is a French writer and has been a participating member of the Oulipo literary project since 1983.

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Jacques Roubaud

Jacques Roubaud (born 5 December 1932 in Caluire-et-Cuire, Rhône) is a French poet and mathematician.

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Jean Lescure

Jean Lescure (14 September 1912 – 17 October 2005) was a French poet.

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Jean Queval

Jean Queval (1913–1990) was a French translator, writer, journalist, film critic and founding member of Oulipo.

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Knight's tour

A knight's tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square only once.

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Life a User's Manual

Life a User's Manual (the original title is La Vie mode d'emploi) is Georges Perec's most famous novel, published in 1978, first translated into English by David Bellos in 1987.

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Lipogram

A lipogram (from λειπογράμματος, leipográmmatos, "leaving out a letter") is a kind of constrained writing or word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided—usually a common vowel, and frequently E, the most common letter in the English language.

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Luc Étienne

Luc Étienne Périn, also known as Luc Étienne, (8 September 1908 – 27 November 1984) was a French writer and a proponent of 'pataphysics.

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Marcel Bénabou

Marcel Bénabou (29 June 1939, Meknes in Morocco) is a French writer and historian.

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Marcel Duchamp

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups.

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Mathematics

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.

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Michèle Audin

Michèle Audin is a French mathematician, writer, and a former professor.

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Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Oskar Pastior

Oskar Pastior (20 October 1927 – 4 October 2006) was a Romanian-born German poet and translator.

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Oubapo

Oubapo (short for Ouvroir de bande dessinée potentielle; roughly translated: "workshop of potential comic book art") is a comics movement which believes in the use of formal constraints to push the boundaries of the medium.

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Ougrapo

Ougrapo stands for "Ouvroir du design graphique potentiel", which translates roughly as "workshop of potential graphic design", it was founded in Frankfurt (Main), in 2000.

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Outrapo

Outrapo stands for "Ouvroir de tragicomédie potentielle", which translates roughly as "workshop of potential tragicomedy." It was founded in London, in 1991, and it seeks to mine the potentialities of stage performance, using new or preexistent constraints.

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Ouxpo

Ouxpo is an acronym for "Ouvroir d'X Potentielle".

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Palindrome

A palindrome is a word, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as madam or racecar.

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Paul Fournel

Paul Fournel (born 20 May 1947 in Saint-Étienne) is a French writer, poet, publisher, and cultural ambassador.

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Pierre Rosenstiehl

Pierre Rosenstiehl (born 1933) is a French mathematician recognized for his work in graph theory, planar graphs, and graph drawing.

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Professor

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.

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Raymond Queneau

Raymond Queneau (21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), notable for his wit and cynical humour.

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Sonnet

A sonnet is a poem in a specific form which originated in Italy; Giacomo da Lentini is credited with its invention.

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Stanley Chapman

Stanley Chapman (15 September 1925 – 26 May 2009) was a British architect, designer, translator and writer.

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Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is an American literary journal, typically containing short stories, reportage, and illustrations.

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University

A university (universitas, "a whole") is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in various academic disciplines.

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often referred to as Nebraska, UNL or NU, is a public research university in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.

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Univocalic

A univocalic is a type of lipogrammatic constrained writing that uses only a single vowel, "A", "E", "I", "O", or "U", and no others.

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L'Oulipo, OuLiPo, Oulipian, Ouvroir de littérature potentielle.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo

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