Works
- Exercices de style, 1947
- Cent mille milliards de poèmes, 1961
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A French novelist and poet who in 1960 co-founded, with the mathematician François Le Lionnais, the Oulipo, a workshop of writers and mathematicians who invent formal constraints and use them to make new work. Exercices de style tells one small story in 99 styles.