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Oulipo

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Three, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-43944-46055
Scope and Contents

Three short stories were published in one volume as suggested by Georg Perec to his publisher shortly before his death in in 1982 at the age of 46. The stories are titled, "The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex," "Which Moped with Chrome-Plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard ?" and "A Gallery Portrait." The Exeter Text is the opposite of the lipogram, "A Void" in that it is written using only the vowel 'e.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Three, 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-44199-46325
Scope and Contents

Three short stories were published in one volume as suggested by Georg Perec to his publisher shortly before his death in in 1982 at the age of 46. The stories are titled, "The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex," "Which Moped with Chrome-Plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard ?" and "A Gallery Portrait." The Exeter Text is the opposite of the lipogram, "A Void" in that it is written using only the vowel 'e.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Writings for the Oulipo / Monk, Ian ; Perec G ; Mathews H ; Adair G., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-49412-70457
Scope and Contents

Ian Monk has been a translator of Georg Perec's books. Monk contributes a chapter of analysis of Gilbert Adair's translation of Perec's "A Void. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006