Oulipian Novel?

[Rob Jackson]

Petillon notes a similarity between the plot of Harry Mathews' novel  
'The Conversions' and Lot 49. (He almost but not quite implies that  
Pynchon was familiar with or influenced by Mathews' novel.)

Walter Abish's novel 'Alphabetical Africa' is a nice American  
counterpart to the Oulipo works.

all best


> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:19:32 +0200 (EET)
> From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
> Subject: Re: Oulipian Novel?
>
> Yep.
>
> In an essay on TCoL49, Pierre-Yves Pétillon writes, among other  
> things,
> about how the French literati found the novel most Oulipian when it
> came out. The essay is included in the following collection:
> http://assets.cambridge.org/97805213/81635/sample/9780521381635ws.pdf
>
>
> Heikki
>
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, James Kyllo wrote:
>
>> You'll be familiar with some of the writers and works, if not the  
>> term
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
>