Life as Creative Constraint: Autobiography and the Oulipo

by Anna Kemp

Book Overview

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 B nabou, Jacques...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1835537162
• ISBN13: 9781835537169
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"