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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Oulipo founded (24/11/1960) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:45:14 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: <vhv043$26tdr$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:45:24 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0cd9fb18d61852529620ff360bcccb88"; logging-data="2323899"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ErotG1NnO4b1IHOSCT0tUEW1whj0cIVs=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1T8pnrB5O/da5mXLVbxA8W+6lOU= Content-Language: en-GB X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Bytes: 2714 OUvroir de LIttératire POtentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature) "a group of mainly French writers who created experimental works using techniques of constrained writing" Examples of constraints: - using only words extracted from a previously existing text [as in _A Humument_] https://www.tomphillips.co.uk/humument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Humument - a technological length constraint [Twitterature] - avoidance -- writing a work that does not contain a particular letter (lipogram) or punctuation mark or part of speech _Gadsby_ by Ernest Wright, uses no <e> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel) _La Disparition_ by Georges Perec likewise (Perec is the only one of the Oulipo group Crystal names) - or insistence -- every word must contain a particular letter...etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo I guess the -lipo in Oulipo was probably a deliberate link to the lipo- in lipogram (which goes back to the 18th century), from Greek leipein 'to leave out, to be missing'. "Ouvroir" is a pretty obscure word. (A "writer's workshop" would, I think, normally be called an "atelier" in French.) Petit Larousse says Ouvroir (n.m.) Etablissement de bienfaisance où des jeunes filles et des femmes se livrent en commun à des travaux de lingerie; dans les communautés de femmes, lieu où les religieuses s'assemblent pour travailler. Sounds a bit like the Magdalen Laundries, or a workhouse for indigent females. Any special reason why they would choose that? (All those named in the Wiki article were men. They did, however, have some connection with Pataphysics -- which we won't get into here.)