Tag Archives: Oulipo

Fun with vowels 1: lipograms and Eunoia

Posted ago by John Gray

‘He rebels. He sets new precedents. He lets cleverness exceed decent levels…He prefers the perverse French esthetes: Verne, Peret, Genet, Perec…Relentless, the rebel peddles these theses, even when vexed peers deem the new precepts “mere dreck”‘. A few weeks ago

Georges Perec: not as easy as one assumes

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Georges Perec was a French man of letters, the author of a famous novel that doesn’t use the letter ‘e’. He was a lover of puzzles and patterns, and often chose to create strange structures for the novels he wrote: …