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Life as Creative Constraint - Autobiography and the Oulipo (Hardcover)
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Life as Creative Constraint - Autobiography and the Oulipo (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 76
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Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the
extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing
group, the Oulipo. The Oulipo's enthusiasm for literary games and
formal gymnastics has seen its work caricatured as 'lifeless' -
impressively virtuoso but more interested in form than content and
ultimately disengaged from the world. This book examines a broad
corpus of work by Georges Perec, Marcel Benabou, Jacques Roubaud
and Anne F. Garreta to show that, despite the group's early
devotion to the radical impersonality of mathematics, later
generations of oulipians have brought the group's fascination with
systems, games and constraints to bear on autobiography. Far from
being 'lifeless', oulipian constraints and concepts provide the
tools that allow writers to engage critically and creatively with
lived experience, and mine the potential of the autobiographical
genre. The games played by these writers are not simply pastimes or
cunning writing techniques, but modes of survival,
self-examination, self-invention, and relating to the world and to
others. As the title of Georges Perec's masterpiece suggests, they
are a mode d'emploi for life.
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