• Oulipo (French pronunciation: [ulipo], short for French: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: "workshop of potential literature", stylized...
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    Raymond Queneau (category Oulipo members)
    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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    Hervé Le Tellier (category Oulipo members)
    French writer and linguist, and a member of the international literary group Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, which translates roughly as "workshop...
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  • This strict adherence to a mathematical pattern is characteristic of the Oulipo literary group to which Calvino belonged. The book was nominated for the...
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  • is an acronym for "Ouvroir d'X Potentielle". It is an umbrella group for Oulipo, Oubapo, Outrapo, etc. The term 'ouvroir', originally used in conjunction...
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    2006. (fr) Oulipo, D'une seule lettre, vol. 165, coll. "La Bibliothèque oulipienne", 2007. Craig Brown (satirist) fr:Boule de neige (Oulipo) Cratylism...
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  • Georges Perec (category Oulipo members)
    novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his...
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  • in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without using the letter e, following Oulipo constraints. Perec would go on to write with the inverse constraint in Les...
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  • (1972), a novel that uses no vowels except for E. Perec was a member of Oulipo, a group of French authors who adopted a variety of constraints in their...
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    Bernard Cerquiglini (category Oulipo members)
    French National Reading Observatory. In 1995 Bernard Cerquiglini joined the Oulipo. He was in charge of a governmental studies on a French orthography reform...
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