Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature (French Literature Series) Book

Fairly dry, redundant essays with a few really fun bits spread through. Liked Perec and Queneau's bits the best of the more straight-played stuff, and Calvino's one was easily the most fun. Just falls sort of flat reading now since so much of the generative stuff is just like how all those twitter bots and every dialogue tree work now (points for that ig) and feels more like a party trick than anything really interesting...also sort of unclear why they pursue that stuff so much when they insist that they resist chance, "the only literature is voluntary literature" etc. Didn't come away convinced that the mega-constraint is as good as they think--I love having a theorem/mathematical structure underneath a piece, but far enough underneath that the ropes aren't leaving any marks. Fan of calling your predecessors "plagiarists by anticipation" though. Merry Christmas love for all <3