| Title | : | Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume Six: The Oulipo |
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| ISBN | : | 9811138664 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9789811138669 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 507 |
| Publication | : | First published October 24, 2017 |
The sixth Verbivoracious Festschrift is a brobdingnagian spectacular fêting the famous workshop of potential literature, The Oulipo, now entering its 57th year. Our contributors were invited to write a piece of fiction, an essay, a poem, or any other hybrid, and choose their own constraints. The results have yielded a marvellous sprawl of oulipian homage, from petite poetic tributes to Queneau, to long lipogrammatic bows to Perec. In this issue: Philip Terry’s take on Perec’s I Remember, Warren Motte’s literary abecedaries, David Bellos’s iconoclastic essay on Hugo and Perec, two chapters from Jeff Bursey’s lipogrammatic novel Ennead, Louis Bury’s anticipatory blurbs, Michael Leong’s take on the Oulipo’s ever-expanding influence, Tom Jenks and Jeanelle D’Alessandro’s satirical N+7s, Andriana Minou’s typographically playful novella Hypnotic Labyrinth, John Peck’s murder mystery in 100 sentences, poetry from Doug Nufer and Stephen Frug, Marc Lapprand’s view on evolution and The Oulipo, a slew of palindromes, lists, papers, and fancies from Pablo Ruiz, and many other pieces. The issue concludes with a wholly original work of sustained constraint: Christine Brooke-Rose’s first novel rewritten with her grammatical constraints and polylingual puns reinstated. The sixth issue is our fattest feast yet, and a must for Oulipo enthusiasts.
Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume Six: The Oulipo Reviews
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Quite simply, the sixth VP festschrift has arrived. And even quite simpler, this issue is a corpulent cacodaemon of constraint containing the likes of David Bellos, Louis Bury, Pablo Ruiz, Jeff Bursey, Philip Terry, Doug Nufer, and Warren Motte. If you’re like me, and you read Roubaud, Perec, Queneau, Monk, and Matthews in a state of spasming rapture, then you will look up from this sentence and notice the book has already been oneclicked to your shopping cart. Support VP, a non-profit nanonano press run by two insanely verbivoracious GR’ers, by ordering this quite simply magnificent volume hither:
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