timeline of ou-x-po

1973: OuliPoPo (first in the series of “Ou-X-Po”)
1974 : OuCiPo
1981 : OuPeinPo
1990: OuCuiPo
1991 : OuTraPo
1992: OuBaPo
1993: OuHisPo
1995: OuPhoPo
2000 : OuTypoPo
2001: OuArchPo
2001: OuPolPot
2002 : OuGraPo
2002: OuCarPo
2004: Ou-Site-X-Po

(adapted from the French @ www.fatrazie.com/oulipo.htm)

Oulipians: rats who construct the labyrinth from which they plan to escape.
Raymond Queneau
The constraint is a rhetoric of invention which owes its powerful effect precisely to the fact that it exceeds the cultural expectation defined by the rule.
Christlee Reggiani
The bulk of human wisdom is contained in combinatories.
Quirinus Kuhlmann
Potential literature remains thus the most serious thing in the world. Q.E.D.
Francois Le Lionnais

timeline of ou-x-po

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