Oulipo: Tricks and Constraints
Put your brain to the test with lipograms, N+7, quenines, and other text-trapping tricks.
What this quiz asks
- 1Which Perec novel is written entirely without the letter 'e'?
- 2The S+7 (N+7) technique consists of…
- 3Which co-founders launched Oulipo in 1960?
- 4How many potential sonnets does 'One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems' contain?
- 5In Perec's 'Les Revenentes', which is the only vowel used?
- 6How many variations does Queneau's 'Exercices de style' offer?
- 7In the Oulipian sense, what is a 'quenine'?
- 8What principle structures the apartment building in 'Life: A User's Manual'?
- 9Which other combinatorial object does Perec also use in 'Life: A User's Manual'?
- 10Who formulated the S+7 (N+7) method for Oulipo?
