Born in recent York in 1930, Harry ...
Born in recent York in 1930, Harry Mathews studied music at Harvard University. granting he has frequently taught writing in the United States, since the 1950 Mathews has lived in France. His first novel, The Conversions, appeared in 1962(1) In 1973 he was asked to join the international experimental writing assemblage Oulipo (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle) whose members included Italo Calvino and George Perec(2) Oulipian writers practice and theorize the use of what they call "constrictive procedures" in the writing proces Because Oulipians explore an astonishingly wide
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