Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature

by Daniel Levin Becker

Book Overview

What sort of society could bind together Jacques Roubaud, Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Queneau--and Daniel Levin Becker, a young American obsessed with language play? Only the Oulipo, the Paris-based experimental collective founded in 1960 and fated to become one of literature's quirkiest movements.

An international organization of writers, artists, and scientists who embrace formal and procedural constraints to achieve literature's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674065778
• ISBN13: 9780674065772
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5"