Website review: Scriptorium - Raymond Queneau
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monograph rated 3 months ago- Raymond Queneau's mind could have been described as a room with a fireplace, where a group of Club Stories characters gathered together and talked endlessly among themselves
- Hapax rated 3 months ago
- raymond queneau 100,000,000,000,000 poems . . . In 1960 Queneau founded, together with François Le Lionnais, the "OuLiPo" (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle). This is a group of writers who include Georges Perec, Harry Matthews, Jacques Roubaud, Italo Calvino, Jacques Bens and others. The Oulipo projects were to a great extent a result of Queneau's love for mathematics, a love that he expressed in a series of essays and papers on number theory, set theory and combinatory analysis. His book Borders collects some of those writings. In 1961, Queneau published Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes. He wrote ten different sonnets, and had them printed on stripes of paper that could combine any of each sonnet's fourteen lines with any thirteen lines drawn from the others. This makes up for an astounding number of combinations (10 to the 14th power, to be exact). It is an interactive work avant la lettre, and online resources have made the process much easier. You may click here to go to a page where this Quennish thing is made possible. . .
- Perko rated 10 months ago
- Click here for a random sonnet (cooler French version)
