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The End of Oulipo?: An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement Paperback – January 16, 2013

by Lauren Elkin (Author), Veronica Esposito (Author)
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The Oulipo celebrated its fiftieth birthday in 2010, and as it enters its sixth decade, its members, fans and critics are all wondering: where can it go from here? In two long essays Scott Esposito and Lauren Elkin consider Oulipo's strengths, weaknesses, and impact on today's experimental literature.
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    January 16, 2013
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Lauren Elkin is a Paris-based critic and novelist; her essays on books and culture have appeared in many publications, including The Guardian, Bookforum, Five Dials, The White Review, and The Daily Beast. Her novel Une Année à Venise was published in spring 2012.


Veronica Esposito's criticism has appeared in many publications including The New York Times, Bookforum, and the Los Angeles Times. She is also the editor in chief for The Quarterly Conversation, an online periodical of book reviews and essays, and a Senior Editor with Two Lines Press.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zero Books; Reprint edition (January 16, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 118 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1780996551
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1780996554
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.56 x 0.35 x 8.65 inches
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Lauren Elkin is a widely acclaimed Franco-American writer, critic, and translator. Her books include Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among others. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. After twenty years in Paris, she now lives in London.

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Rob Pritchard
3.0 out of 5 stars Mostly about Jacques Jouet and Herve le Tellier
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2013
This is a pretty good book, but for a book that purports to be about Oulipo, it feels about one third devoted to Jacques Jouet, one third to Herve le Tellier, one sixth to Georges Perec, and the remainder to everything else Oulipo-related. Those are Oulipians to be sure, but to devote so much space to them, at the expense of so many others, seems not so hot. The parts about Jouet and Le Tellier are highly critical, though not having read them I couldn't offer any thoughts on whether the criticism is justified or not. The part on Perec is (naturally) quite positive and had some good insights, but comprised too few pages to really get into details, and there's barely anything about Harry Mathews (my personal favorite), or Calvino, or, I dunno, Roussel (to name a proto-Oulipian I was hoping would be discussed)? It's also a very short book. Excluding a few sundries at the end, it's exactly 100 pages long, and I don't know if they should be charging full price for such a short book. It also doesn't seem to go very far toward answering the question in its title. It's basically two essays, one on Perec and Jouet, and one on Le Tellier and feminism/misogyny in the Oulipo; both are enjoyable, and if the book had contained five more of similar length and perspicacity, it would be a whole-hearted recommendation, but with one two, the volume feels a bit slight.
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