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Articles

Les « Temps mêlés » de l’Oulipo

Pages 566-574 | Published online: 01 Feb 2022
 

Abstract

After sixty years of existence, the recognition achieved by the Oulipo is undeniable. If major writers have emerged from its ranks, the group’s role, its “visibility” and its reception in the literary field remain problematic. Recently portrayed by certain exegetes as a spent or “exhausted” organization, has the Oulipo had its day? This article examines the sometimes contradictory criticisms recently addressed to the group, particularly accusations of formalism and excessive popularization. Broadening the focus to take in structural upheavals in the literary field, it then attempts to redefine the delicate balances struck by this one-off collective agent.

Notes

1 Voir William Marx, L’Adieu à la littérature. Histoire d’une dévalorisation, xviiie-xxe siècle, Paris, Minuit, 2005.

2 Voir Michel Foucault, “Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur ?” [1969] Dits et écrits I, Paris, Gallimard, 1994, pp. 789–821.

3 Voir Noël Arnaud, Noël Arnaud, chef d’orchestre de l’Oulipo: correspondance 1961–1998, edited by Marc Lapprand and Christophe Reig, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2018 ; Jacques Bens, Jacques Bens, mémoires d’un “vieux crocodile:” correspondance 1952–2001, edited by Marc Lapprand and Christophe Reig, Paris, Honoré Champion, forthcoming.

4 Voir Georges Perec and Oulipo, Le Voyage d’hiver & ses suites, Paris, Seuil, 2013 ; Oulipo, C’est un métier d’homme, Paris, Mille et une nuits, 2010.

5 Voir Oulipo, Un art simple et tout d’exécution, Paris, Circé, 2001.

6 Voir Hervé Le Tellier, Esthétique de l’Oulipo, Montreuil, Le Castor Astral, 2007.

7 Voir Jacques Roubaud, ‘le grand incendie de londres,’ Paris, Seuil, 2009.

8 Signe des temps, La Littérature française au présent: héritage, modernité, mutations (Dominique Viart and Bruno Vercier, Paris, Bordas, 2005) ne consacre somme toute que quelques paragraphes à l’Oulipo.

9 Olivier Bessard-Banquy reconstitue à l’occasion de nombreuses pages (152, 205, 310…) le rôle de Paul Fournel dans le secteur (La Fabrique du livre: l’édition littéraire au xxe siècle, PU de Bordeaux & Du Lérot, 2016).

10 Voir Harold Bloom, L’Angoisse de l’influence [1973], translated by Aurélie Thiria-Meulemans et al., Bussy-Saint-Martin, Aux Forges de Vulcain, 2013.

11 Voir Jacques Roubaud, Peut-être ou la Nuit de dimanche (brouillon de prose): autobiographie romanesque, Paris, Seuil, 2017.

12 Voir Bernard Lahire, La Condition littéraire: la double vie des écrivains, Paris, La Découverte, 2006.

13 Voir Oulipo, Moments oulipiens, Montreuil, Le Castor Astral, 2004.

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Notes on contributors

Christophe Reig

Christophe Reig is an associate member of the research team “Écritures de la modernité” (Sorbonne Nouvelle, UMR “Thalim”). He has published extensively on Jacques Roubaud, Raymond Roussel, the Oulipo and its members, and other contemporary writers. His authored and edited volumes include: Mimer, Miner, Rimer : le cycle romanesque de Jacques Roubaud (Rodopi, 2006) ; Marcel Bénabou archiviste de l’infini (PSN, 2015) ; Roussel, orfèvre de la langue (Classiques Garnier, 2016) ; Emmanuel Carrère – le point de vue de l’adversaire (PSN, 2016) ; Régis Jauffret – éclats de la fiction (PSN, 2017).

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