 | Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £2.27 I recommend you search for all his books, this being his best. (OULIPO)
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 | Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Buy used from: £13.85 Most of his works are translated, but also out of print. So look hard! (OULIPO)
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 | Adventures in Pataphysics (Atlas Anti-classics) by Alfred Jarry
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £7.68 Search for Atlas Press books, try Supermale/Ubu/ Faustroll next. (orginator of 'pataphysics).
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 | The Bald Prima Donna: Play (Acting Edition) by Eugene Ionesco
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £2.07 Something small to begin with. Absurdist writing and 'pataphysics are lovers.
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 | Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Vintage classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £12.00 Not his Oulipian work (see If on a winter's night), but great little essays.
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 | Twenty Lines a Day (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Harry Mathews
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £5.69 Harry Mathews, an American Writer in Paris. Out of print works? Outrageous!
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 | Oulipo Compendium (Atlas Archive)
Buy used from: £29.99 The bible, worship it, praise it, love it...then wipe it down and do it again. Search for other Atlas Archives.
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 | Oulipo Laboratory: Texts from the Bibliotheque Oulipienne (Atlas Anti-Classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy used from: £65.40 An appendix to The One and True Bible (see above).
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 | Writings for the Oulipo by Ian Monk
Buy used from: £26.60 try Makenow press for copies and other surprises makenow.org
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 | Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature (French Literature) by Noel Arnaud
Buy new: £10.43 / Used from: £7.47 Ah, this explains it...
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 | Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books (French Modernist Library) by Marcel Benabou
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £4.67 Now for a short difficult book...
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| Catalogue of Extraordinary Objects by Jacques Carelman
Rather dated cartoon comedy, a novelty for strict Oulipo fans.
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 | Heartsnatcher (French Literature Series (Normal, Ill.).) by Stanley Chapman
Buy new: £8.32 / Used from: £1.50 Like his friend Queneau can feel dated. Lover of puns (good and bad).
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 | Bayamus by Stefan Themerson
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £5.50 If you like 'pataphysics, then you'll like this too. Wife illustrated Ubu.
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| Little Girls Breathe the Same Air as We Do by Paul Fournel
Buy used from: £4.95 Look for 2nd hand hardback or paperback or....
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 | Need for the Bike by Paul Fournel
Buy new: £7.29 / Used from: £4.66 Alfred Jarry was a big bike fan...
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| Plays: v. 1 (Calderbooks) by Fernando Arrabal
Buy used from: £17.95 Wow, out of print, you'll find this with these type of books, sorry...
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| Pergus and the Ectoplasm (Opuscules of the London Institute of Pataphysics) by Magnus Irvin
Buy new: £6.66 I don't like porridge anymore, thanks...
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| Stones in My Passway (Opuscules of the London Institute of Pataphysics) by Peter Blegvad
Now, have you looked at atlaspress website yet? No? What! atlaspress.co.uk-okay? Now-Go!
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 | The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Classics) by Francois Rabelais
Buy used from: £0.45 not 'pataphysics, but a anticipatory plagiarist in work. I wish I had a goose...
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 | Maldoror and Poems (Classics) by Comte Lautreamont
Buy new: £6.56 / Used from: £6.59 lots of different editions like Rabelais, search around. Anticipatory plagiarist of Surrealism.
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