- 1924 Queneau met and briefly joined the surrealists
- 1948 Queneau was a member of the Mathematics Society of France
- 1950 he joined the College of Pataphysics. The surrealists were also part of this college.
- 1960 he was the co-founder of Oulipo which started out as a subcommittee of the College of 'Pataphysics.'
"Imagination combines the passion of the mathematician with the rationality of a poet," Raymond Queneau.
This explains mathematics as a form of poetry.
Queneau was obsessed with street language (vinacular). He put a map Zazie Dans le me'tro into a film.
Georges Perec- set himself rules and wrote the lipogram novel A Void (169).
He believed that reality was possible to describe words. This included things we can't say through our language or colours.
He wrote Life a User's Manual (1979) the book had constraints on writing.
No comments:
Post a Comment