The impact of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle), one of the most important groups of experimental writers of the late twentieth century, is still being felt in contemporary literature, criticism, and theory, both in Europe and the US. Founded in 1960 and still active today, this Parisian literary workshop has featured among its members such notable writers as Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, and Raymond Queneau, all sharing in its lighthearted, slightly boozy bonhomie, the convivial antithesis of the fractious, volatile coteries of the early twentiethcentury avantgarde. For the last fifty years the Oulipo has undertaken the same simple goal to investigate the potential of constraints in the production of literaturethat is, formal procedures such as anagrams, acrostics, lipograms (texts which exclude a certain letter), and other strange and complex devices. Yet, far from being mere parlour games, these methods have been frequently used as part of a passionatethough sometimes satiricalinvolvement with the major intellectual currents of the midtwentieth century. Structuralism, psychoanalysis, Surrealism, analytic philosophy all come under discussion in the groups meetings, and all find their way in the groups exercises in ways that, while often ironic, are also highly informed. Using meeting minutes, correspondence, and other material from the Oulipo archive at the Bibliotheque nationale de France, The Oulipo and Modern Thought shows how the group have used...

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