Life as creative constraint : autobiography and the Oulipo / Anna Kemp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kemp, Anna, author.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 76.

Liverpool scholarship online.

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 76

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Literature, Experimental--France--History and criticism.

Literature, Experimental.

Autobiography--French authors--History and criticism.

Autobiography.

Oulipo (Association).

Perec, Georges, 1936-1982--Criticism and interpretation.

Perec, Georges.

Bénabou, Marcel--Criticism and interpretation.

Bénabou, Marcel.

Roubaud, Jacques. Boucle.

Roubaud, Jacques.

Garréta, Anne. Pas un jour.

Garréta, Anne.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'Life as Creative Constraint' focuses 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 critically and creatively with lived experience, and mine the potential of the autobiographical genre.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80085-280-0

1-80034-550-X

OCLC:

1263028547