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Oulipo

A collection of 2 issues

A Note from Notes from Calvino

As part of my study on the Oulipo, I read Italo Calvino’s book Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988). This book revolves around five topics Calvino prepared for the lecture at Harvard University in 1984, following Charles Eliot Norton’s poetry lectures. The five topics include Lightness, Quickness,

Oulipo, Purposeful Constraints

Starting from Roland Barthes, Haiku, and Shijo, the most striking character in those discussions was constraints/structure within practices. As I described in a previous post, those practices strictly follow specific rules that define the practice itself. For instance, Haiku follows word count or the main topic, season words. Thereby,