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OULIPOOuvroir de Litterature Potentielle (French writers' group)


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Bailey's Hexameters was, as you indicate, a predecessor of the sort of wordplay emphasized by Oulipo.
She also utilizes arbitrary mechanisms promoted by the French avant-garde Oulipo school and enriches her repertoire with deliberate malaprops and spoonerisms.
But unlike certain late modernists who devised chance events, like the writers of the Oulipo Group, or William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Calle has no particular belief that "chance" can break the code of randomness and reveal a hidden meaning.
 
 
 
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