Examines the representation and staging of chance in literature through the work of the French writer Georges Perec. This book explores the ways in which Perec's texts exploit the possibilities of chance, by both tapping into its creative potential and controlling its operation.
Examines the representation and staging of chance in literature through the work of the French writer Georges Perec. This book explores the ways in which Perec's texts exploit the possibilities of chance, by both tapping into its creative potential and controlling its operation.
Alison James is an assistant professor of French literature at the University of Chicago.
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Introduction The Notion of Chance Chance and Literature Perec and the Oulipo Mastering History History, Politics, and La Ligne generale Commitment or Chance Conquering the World Les Choses: Tensions and Tenses Escaping History: Un homme qui dort Chance and Circumstance Questioning Destiny Power and Passivity Chance and the Law Life as Lottery: Perec and Borges Possibilities Games of Anti-Chance Fortune and Fate Cause and Effect Incidents and Accidents Reversals and Recognitions Chance and Calamity Stories Without Event Retrospection and Rupture Digression and Damnation Traps and Machinations Hidden Signals Means and Ends Schemes and Disguises Chance and Detection Clue and Coincidence Red Herrings Text and World A Challenge to Chance The Poetics of the Oulipo Chance and the Oulipo's Critics Voluntary Literature: Oulipian Anti-Surrealism Aleatory Art Controlling Chance Chance and Language Mysticism, Mathematics, Meaning Method and Mechanism: S+7 Perec's Constraints: Combination, Coincidence, Clinamen La Disparition Codes and Cliches Alphabets: Chaotic Language La Vie mode d' emploi: Combination and Clinamen From List to Text Coherence and Multiplicity Form Versus Diagram Constraint and Chaos Labyrinths and Puzzles Literary Labyrinths The Rat in the Maze Ceiling and City Verbal Ruses and Oulipian Rats Complications The Art of the Jigsaw Artists and Quests Chance and System Ordering the Infra-Ordinary Chance and the Real Les Choses: Objects as Signs Common Things: Perec and the Infra-Ordinary Chance, Perception, Habit: Tentative d' epuisement d' une lieu parisien The Event and the Everyday Perec's Lists Classifications The World as Jigsaw Order and Constraint Conclusion Bibliography.
Introduction The Notion of Chance Chance and Literature Perec and the Oulipo Mastering History History, Politics, and La Ligne generale Commitment or Chance Conquering the World Les Choses: Tensions and Tenses Escaping History: Un homme qui dort Chance and Circumstance Questioning Destiny Power and Passivity Chance and the Law Life as Lottery: Perec and Borges Possibilities Games of Anti-Chance Fortune and Fate Cause and Effect Incidents and Accidents Reversals and Recognitions Chance and Calamity Stories Without Event Retrospection and Rupture Digression and Damnation Traps and Machinations Hidden Signals Means and Ends Schemes and Disguises Chance and Detection Clue and Coincidence Red Herrings Text and World A Challenge to Chance The Poetics of the Oulipo Chance and the Oulipo's Critics Voluntary Literature: Oulipian Anti-Surrealism Aleatory Art Controlling Chance Chance and Language Mysticism, Mathematics, Meaning Method and Mechanism: S+7 Perec's Constraints: Combination, Coincidence, Clinamen La Disparition Codes and Cliches Alphabets: Chaotic Language La Vie mode d' emploi: Combination and Clinamen From List to Text Coherence and Multiplicity Form Versus Diagram Constraint and Chaos Labyrinths and Puzzles Literary Labyrinths The Rat in the Maze Ceiling and City Verbal Ruses and Oulipian Rats Complications The Art of the Jigsaw Artists and Quests Chance and System Ordering the Infra-Ordinary Chance and the Real Les Choses: Objects as Signs Common Things: Perec and the Infra-Ordinary Chance, Perception, Habit: Tentative d' epuisement d' une lieu parisien The Event and the Everyday Perec's Lists Classifications The World as Jigsaw Order and Constraint Conclusion Bibliography.
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