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QUENEAU Raymond.
autograph manuscripts, corrected typescripts and documents on OULIPO, 1960-1976| about 800 autograph pages, a 250-page manuscript/tapuscript, plus numerous corrected typescripts and attached documents, all in 8 boxes with red half-box folders titled on the spine, the whole (except for 2 folders) mounted on vellum paper and bound in 7 strong folio volumes, spine in brown (or red) embossed leather, 3 visible stitching ribbons, boards in brown satin-finish varnished medium, corner mouldings and ebony rivets, lining in beige (or red) nubuck (Jean de Gonet 2002).
Important set of files concerning Raymond
Queneau's activity at the Oulipo from its foundation in 1960 until the writer's death.
The Oulipo (OUvroir de LIttérature POtentielle) was founded in 1960 by
Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais, soon to be joined by other inventive writers or mathematicians. "We call potential literature the search for new forms and structures that can be used by writers in any way they please," explains Queneau. For a long time, the activity of the Oulipo remained hidden| it was revealed in 1973 by the collective work prepared by Queneau, of which we have here the complete manuscript, Oulipo. La
Littérature potentielle, published by Gallimard in the "Idées" collection.
The OuLiPo experiment, sometimes condescendingly mocked as a meeting of incorrigible iconoclasts playing ridiculous parlour games, is today considered one of the last great attempts to revolutionize poetic and literary language through these "games" of calculations and words.
Raymond Queneau had filed these archives in numerous folders (titled by him or by F. Le Lionnais), arranged in three boxes| during the binding, the order was scrupulously preserved.
Box 7/1. 5 folders.
* Blue folder "Littérature potentielle" (33 p. of an orange schoolbook of the Provinces brand| a few collages, numerous erasures, corrections and additions| a cut-out page| numerous diagrams and mathematical equations). A true manifesto of the Oulipo written by
Queneau. "What is potential literature. First of all, I will say that it is what a group founded three years ago by Le
Lionnais, which includes ten members and which has taken the name of Ouvroir de
Littérature Potentielle, is dedicated to. Ouvroir because it intends to work| Literature because it is about literature| Potential - the word must be taken in different meanings which will appear, I hope, in the course of this talk.
In summary OU.LI.PO. What is the purpose of our work: to propose to writers new "structures", of a mathematical nature, or to invent new processes, artificial or mechanical, contributing to literary activity. Servants of inspiration, in other words. Or an aid to creativity, as it were. At worst, crutches for puny subjectivities"... And so on. Then he explains the work of the Oulipo in three points: "1) Studies on the precursors, because we have had them: lipogrammatie, regular poems. 2) Processes of trituration of existing texts [...] 3) New inventions and latest novelties: quick enumeration of isovocalisms, isoconsonantism, isosyntaxism, - leads to the matrix analysis of language"... * Pale green "Oulipo" folder, containing 33 miscellaneous documents, 22 of which bear autograph notes by Queneau, in various formats (some notes on sheets of nrf letterhead, others on versos of letters, invitation cards, etc.). An autograph poem, resulting from a modification of Mallarmé's sonnet Toast funèbre: "Such as in itself at last the future changes him"... Plus a l.a.s. from LATIS.
* Orange folder, untitled, containing 7 handwritten documents of mathematical equations and diagrams, including a page of mathematical exercises on letters: "22 letters - hence 223 triliteral roots"...| two quotes from Cioran.
* Pink folder "Oulipismes May-June 1973," containing 18 miscellaneous documents, mostly handwritten, including three attempts at transforming poems, including an "Essay on the semantic translation of Fable I by
La Fontaine to Fable II" (i.e., from La Cigale et la Fourmi to Le Corbeau et le Renard): "The crow, having danced / All summer / Found himself greatly deprived / When December came: / Not a single little morsel / Of brie or livarot"..
* Orange folder "Oulipo (Oulipiana ) and other research", containing a red-covered schoolboy notebook by Les Goélands with 12 p. of mathematical ordering of the alphabet, and 58 autographed documents, including 18 p. in-4 concerning the "definitional neighbourhood" of the words in the dictionary, and the 8 stages of variation, with this explanatory note: "Neighbouring words. If we want to
autograph manuscripts, corrected typescripts and documents on OULIPO, 1960-1976| about 800 autograph pages, a 250-page manuscript/tapuscript, plus numerous corrected typescripts and attached documents, all in 8 boxes with red half-box folders titled on the spine, the whole (except for 2 folders) mounted on vellum paper and bound in 7 strong folio volumes, spine in brown (or red) embossed leather, 3 visible stitching ribbons, boards in brown satin-finish varnished medium, corner mouldings and ebony rivets, lining in beige (or red) nubuck (Jean de Gonet 2002).
Important set of files concerning Raymond
Queneau's activity at the Oulipo from its foundation in 1960 until the writer's death.
The Oulipo (OUvroir de LIttérature POtentielle) was founded in 1960 by
Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais, soon to be joined by other inventive writers or mathematicians. "We call potential literature the search for new forms and structures that can be used by writers in any way they please," explains Queneau. For a long time, the activity of the Oulipo remained hidden| it was revealed in 1973 by the collective work prepared by Queneau, of which we have here the complete manuscript, Oulipo. La
Littérature potentielle, published by Gallimard in the "Idées" collection.
The OuLiPo experiment, sometimes condescendingly mocked as a meeting of incorrigible iconoclasts playing ridiculous parlour games, is today considered one of the last great attempts to revolutionize poetic and literary language through these "games" of calculations and words.
Raymond Queneau had filed these archives in numerous folders (titled by him or by F. Le Lionnais), arranged in three boxes| during the binding, the order was scrupulously preserved.
Box 7/1. 5 folders.
* Blue folder "Littérature potentielle" (33 p. of an orange schoolbook of the Provinces brand| a few collages, numerous erasures, corrections and additions| a cut-out page| numerous diagrams and mathematical equations). A true manifesto of the Oulipo written by
Queneau. "What is potential literature. First of all, I will say that it is what a group founded three years ago by Le
Lionnais, which includes ten members and which has taken the name of Ouvroir de
Littérature Potentielle, is dedicated to. Ouvroir because it intends to work| Literature because it is about literature| Potential - the word must be taken in different meanings which will appear, I hope, in the course of this talk.
In summary OU.LI.PO. What is the purpose of our work: to propose to writers new "structures", of a mathematical nature, or to invent new processes, artificial or mechanical, contributing to literary activity. Servants of inspiration, in other words. Or an aid to creativity, as it were. At worst, crutches for puny subjectivities"... And so on. Then he explains the work of the Oulipo in three points: "1) Studies on the precursors, because we have had them: lipogrammatie, regular poems. 2) Processes of trituration of existing texts [...] 3) New inventions and latest novelties: quick enumeration of isovocalisms, isoconsonantism, isosyntaxism, - leads to the matrix analysis of language"... * Pale green "Oulipo" folder, containing 33 miscellaneous documents, 22 of which bear autograph notes by Queneau, in various formats (some notes on sheets of nrf letterhead, others on versos of letters, invitation cards, etc.). An autograph poem, resulting from a modification of Mallarmé's sonnet Toast funèbre: "Such as in itself at last the future changes him"... Plus a l.a.s. from LATIS.
* Orange folder, untitled, containing 7 handwritten documents of mathematical equations and diagrams, including a page of mathematical exercises on letters: "22 letters - hence 223 triliteral roots"...| two quotes from Cioran.
* Pink folder "Oulipismes May-June 1973," containing 18 miscellaneous documents, mostly handwritten, including three attempts at transforming poems, including an "Essay on the semantic translation of Fable I by
La Fontaine to Fable II" (i.e., from La Cigale et la Fourmi to Le Corbeau et le Renard): "The crow, having danced / All summer / Found himself greatly deprived / When December came: / Not a single little morsel / Of brie or livarot"..
* Orange folder "Oulipo (Oulipiana ) and other research", containing a red-covered schoolboy notebook by Les Goélands with 12 p. of mathematical ordering of the alphabet, and 58 autographed documents, including 18 p. in-4 concerning the "definitional neighbourhood" of the words in the dictionary, and the 8 stages of variation, with this explanatory note: "Neighbouring words. If we want to