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This booklet was written for a workshop in a grade school class and is a second edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This letter is addressed to John Sharkey and and contains questions about ADA MAG. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains an essay, "The Oulipo" that describes the Workshop of Potential Literature (Ouvoir de Litterature Potentielle) of which Georges Perec and Raymond Queneau were members. Mathews discusses his theory of algorithms for tracking down hidden meanings in texts, so that every word "becomes a banana peel."In one of three essays on Georges Perec, Mathews states that he reimagined and reinvented the act of writing itself..."His work is of one piece - the transcription of a rare intelligence and sensibility united in the crafty and straightforward attempt to refashion a world where nothing could be relied on by assembling and disassembling those things of the world that we call letters and words, poems and books." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The name peter is typed in red with dashes and slashes. Houedard writes that " here i am in the middle of 3 years work revising the bible (once more) - but taking time off to see the students at cardiff artcoll under patric ?nolan ?dolan." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The large P in the heading to Peter is typed with slashes and dashes. Houedard has requested mention of OULIPO to be included in Peter's Mayer's book with Bob Cobbing, 'Concerning Concrete Poetry.'. He states that his files and things have arrived from the old abbey and he is putting them in order. He also makes suggestions to study the medieval manuscripts for shaped forms and "also the covers of the new encyclopaedia iudaica has a very well done tree with hebrew alphabet leaves...the psychology of inventing pseudo hebrew & pseudo greek might be looked into." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Thie letter deals mainly with comments on forthcoming books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In the prologue of this book, the beginning of Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentielle or Workshop for Potential Literature) is described. While Raymond Queneau was creating his work "100,000,,,000,000,0000 Poems, he asked Francois Le Lionnais for advice with problems he was having. Their discussions led to a wider consideration of the role of mathematics in literature and eventually to the creation of Oulipo in 1960. The book is described as a late 20th century kabala and a labyrinth of literary secrets and survey of an original, provocative and productive literary group. This book includes a translation of Queneau's 100,000,000,000,000 Poems, Jacques Roubaud's account of Oulipian history and practice, full documentation of Oulipian writing techniques, a glossary of Oulipian terms, and an analysis of important Oulipian works, such as Perec' Life A User's Manual. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Raymond Queneau's poem "100,000,000,000,000 Poems" is reproduced in the prologue. While Queneau was completing the work, he asked Francois Le Lionais for advice with problems he was having. Their discussions led to a wider consideration of the role of mathematics in literature and, eventually, to the creation of Oulipo." Initially the group attempted to learn the possibilities of incorporating mathematical structures in literary works. Later this was expanded to include all writing that was subjected to severly restrictive methods. Also designated Atlas Arkive No.6.The Sackner Archive also holds the ordinary edition of this book.Jacques Roubaud contributes an introduction "The Oulipo and Combinatorial Art (1991)." The alphabetical compendium begins with Abish and ends with Zoopictural classification and includes Oulipo and two associated groups the Oulipopo and the Oupeinpo."Life a User's Manual" by George Perec is described by the author including two diagrams. -- Source of...

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In the prologue of this book, the beginning of Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentielle or Workshop for Potential Literature) is described. While Raymond Queneau was creating his work "100,000,,,000,000,0000 Poems, he asked Francois Le Lionnais for advice with problems he was having. Their discussions led to a wider consideration of the role of mathematics in literature and eventually to the creation of Oulipo in 1960. The book is described as a late 20th century kabala and a labyrinth of literary secrets and survey of an original, provocative and productive literary group.This book includes a translation of Queneau's 100,000,000,000,000 Poems, Jacques Roubaud's account of Oulipian history and practice, full documentation of Oulipian writing techniques, a glossary of Oulipian terms, and an analysis of important Oulipian works, such as Perec' Life A User's Manual. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Oulipo is an acronym for the French word meaning "Workshop for Potential Literature." The group was formed in 1960 by Raymond Queneau, a celebrated novelist and poet who was not an inconsequential amateur mathematician and his friend, Francois Le Lionnais, a chessmaster who shared his friend's love for mathematics. Queneau had been struggling with a literary task of immense complexity, his 100 trillion poems and asked Le Lionnais for practical assistance.When they discusses this problem, their conversations turned to the possibility of incorporating mathematical structures into the process of literary creation. Queneau had ready been doing this in his novels, but no one noticed until he mentioned it. Queneau and Le Lionnais soon widened their investigations beyond mathematics to include all forms of artificial restriction in literature. As an Oulipean term, restriction means a constraining method or system or rule that can be precisely defined. All literature is limited by the...

Scope and Contents Internet Peter Baker's translation of introduction: During the last week of August 1939, while rumors of war invaded Paris, a young literature professor, Vincent Degrael, was invited to spend several days at a property in the neighborhood of le Havre that belonged to the parents of one of his colleagues, Denis Borrade. The eve of his departure, while he was exploring the library of his hosts searching for one of the books that one has always promised oneself to read, but which one generally only has time to flip through the pages negligently next to the fire before going to make up the fourth at bridge, Degrael fell upon a slim volume entitled The Winter Voyage, whose author, Hugo Vernier, was absolutely unknown to him, but the first pages of which made such a strong impression on him that he barely took the time to excuse himself from his friend and his hosts before going to read it in his room. The Winter Voyage was a sort of first-person narrative, situated in a...