How to Do Things with Forms: The Oulipo and Its Inventions

<div>The Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, or Workshop for Potential Literature) is a literary think tank that brings together writers and mathematicians. Since 1960, its worldwide influence has refreshed ways of making and thinking about literature.How to Do Things with Forms assesses the work of the group, explores where it came from, and envisages its future. Redefining the Oulipo's key concept of the constraint in a clear and rigorous way, Chris Andrews weighs the roles of craft and imitation in the group's practice. He highlights the importance of translation for the Oulipo's writers, explaining how their new forms convey meanings and how these famously playful authors are also moved by serious concerns. Offering fresh interpretations of emblematic Oulipian works such as Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual, Andrews also examines lesser-known texts by Jacques Roubaud, Anne F. Garréta, and Michelle Grangaud.How to Do Things with Forms addresses questions of interest to anyone involved in the making of literature, illuminating how writers decide when to stop revising, the risks and benefits of a project mentality in creative writing, and ways of holding a reader's interest for as long as possible.</div>

Literature & Fiction

Andrews, Chris

History & Criticism

McGill-Queen's University Press

Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the larger history of Latin American and global literary fiction. Andrews provides new readings and interpretations of Bolaño's novels, including 2666, The Savage Detectives, and By Night in Chile, while at the same time examining the ideas and narrative strategies that unify his work. He begins with a consideration of the reception of Bolaño's fiction in English translation, examining the reasons behind its popularity. Subsequent chapters explore aspects of Bolaño's fictional universe and the political, ethical, and aesthetic values that shape it. Bolaño emerges as the inventor of a prodigiously effective "fiction-making system," a subtle handler of suspense, a chronicler of aimlessness, a celebrator of courage, an anatomist of evil, and a proponent of youthful openness. Written in a clear and engaging style, Roberto Bolano's Fiction offers an invaluable understanding of one of the most important authors of the last thirty years.

Roberto Bolaño's Fiction: An Expanding Universe

Columbia University Press

Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the larger history of Latin American and global literary fiction.Andrews provides new readings and interpretations of Bolaño's novels, including 2666, The Savage Detectives, and By Night in Chile, while at the same time examining the ideas and narrative strategies that unify his work. He begins with a consideration of the reception of Bolaño's fiction in English translation, examining the reasons behind its popularity. Subsequent chapters explore aspects of Bolaño's fictional universe and the political, ethical, and aesthetic values that shape it. Bolaño emerges as the inventor of a prodigiously effective "fiction-making system," a subtle handler of suspense, a chronicler of aimlessness, a celebrator of courage, an anatomist of evil, and a proponent of youthful openness. Written in a clear and engaging style, Roberto Bolano's Fiction offers an invaluable understanding of one of the most important authors of the last thirty years.

Roberto Bolano's Fiction: An Expanding Universe

Oxford

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Parragon Publishing

Provides information on the construction and maintenance of an aquarium, and the selection and breeding of tropical fish.

All About Tropical Fish

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

McInerny, Derek

Gerard, Geoffrey

Pets & Animal Care

FACTS ON FILE+

A Fancy Goldfishes: How to Keep and Enjoy a Wide Selection of These Popular and Beautiful Fishes in the Home (Fishkeeper's Guide Series)

Salamander Books

Provides phrases in Basque, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Irish, Portuguese, and Spanish for use in obtaining a hotel room, ordering a meal, shopping, camping, traveling, and handling emergencies

Lonely Planet Western Europe Phrasebook (LONELY PLANET EUROPE PHRASEBOOK)

Travel

Europe

Lonely Planet

A photographic wall calendar showing 12 views of Oxford. It opens up to show a picture at the top and large date boxes for writing in.

The Romance of Oxford: Guide and Souvenir

Chris Andrews Publications / Oxford Picture Library

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