Oulipo compendium
By: edited by Harry Mathews & Alastair Brotchie ; with additional sections devoted to Oulipopo edited by Alastair Brotchie, Paul Gayot & Francis Debyser ; Oupeinpo edited by Thieri Foulc ; and with accounts of the Ou-x-pos by their members
Contributors: Mathews, Harry, 1930-; Brotchie, Alastair; Queneau, Raymond, 1903-1976.
Edition: Rev. and updated
Publisher: Atlas Press; Make Now Press; Atlas Press (GB)
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Oulipo (Association); French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature -- Societies, etc; Literature and science -- France; Literary form
Other titles: Oulipopo; Oupeinpo
Description: A late 20th-century kabala, a labyrinth of literary secrets that will lure the uninitiated into rethinking everything they know about books and writing. The definitive encyclopedia of contemporary word-magic.
Notes: Includes a complete translation of Queneau's 100,000,000,000,000 [hundred thousand billion] poems

Includes bibliographical references