User:Emily/RW&RM/Trimester 01/05

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE OULIPO

by Jean Lescure, New Media Reader

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Following text is my annotation about the main ideas of each page and outline of the article.
The difficulty Raymond Queneau encountered when he went along with the sonnets writing, may "brings us to the very heart of Oulipian thought". After Le Lionnais's suggestion of starting "a sort of research group in experimental literature", seven members had their first luncheon. The question "The next day in written form" was been asked, but not yet answered.
Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, workshop of potential literature) changed its name from the original S.L.E(seminar, literature, experimental), and it introduces important difference that is indicated "Oulipian shared for beautiful work and good deed: out of respect for both fine arts and morals; they also judged it advisable to settle themselves squarely on an objective notion, on a real fact of every literary being, his potential". "Oulipo intended to demonstrate that the constraints of literature are felicitous, generous and are in fact literature itself." They went further to ask themselves "is it possible that inspiration might cease to be capricious and that any and everybody might find it faithful and compliant to his desires?"