Three collections of Oulipo writing

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May 01, 2023

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The Oulipo is a writing movement that advocates imposing constraints in order to generate new writing. You can read more about it here:

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

Imposing limits in order to enhance your creativity

Introducing the Oulipo The standard advice for writers who are feeling uninspired or blocked is to allow your mind to wander where it will or to just start writing aimlessly to see what happens. Therefore to suggest the opposite approach, that of imposing some constraints on your thinking, seems completely counterintuitive…

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In this article I review three books of Oulipo writing:

The Penguin Book of Oulipo
All That Is Evident Is Suspect
The Oulipo Compendium

I have reviewed these books before, but in this post…

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