Product Description: Readers of the contemporary novel in France are witnessing the most astonishing reinvigoration of narrative prose since the New Novel of the 1950s. In the last few years, bold, innovative, and richly compelling novels have been written by a variety of young writers...read more

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An anthology of writing by members of the group Oulipo. The Oulipians view imaginative writing as an exercise dominated by constraints, attempting to write stories in which strict rules are imposed and followed. Providing a contribution to literary theory and a guide to writers and students of creative writing. Originally published in 1986. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: “Not hubris but the ever self-renewing impulse to play calls new worlds into being.”—Nietzsche Parents and politicians have always taken play seriously. Its formative powers, its focus, its energy, and its ability to signify other things have drawn the attention of writers from Plato and Schiller to Wittgenstein, Nabokov, and Eco...read more

Product Description: Book by Motte Jr., Warren F.