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Warren F. Motte

Warren F. Motte

Cover of Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature

Dalkey Archive Press

Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature

Warren F. Motte

Fiction €20.00

A collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (OUvroir de LItterature POtentiale), this anthology includes, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Founded in Paris in 1960, the Oulipo views imaginative writing as an exercise dominated by the method of "constraints."