Sphinx -- Anne Garréta

A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Anne Garr騁a<br><b>Publisher:</b> Deep Vellum Publishing<br><b>Published:</b> 04/21/2015<br><b>Pages:</b> 152<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.45lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781941920091<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Library Journal</i> 04/01/2015 pg. 76<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Anne F. Garr騁a is the first member of the Oulipo to be born after the founding of the Oulipo. A normalien (graduate of France's prestigious ﾉcole normale sup駻ieure) and lecturer at the University of Rennes II since 1995, Anne F. Garr騁a was co-opted into the Oulipo in April 2000. She also teaches at Duke University as a Research Professor of Literature and Romance Studies. Her first novel, <i>Sphinx</i> (Grasset, 1986), hailed by critics, tells a love story between two people without giving any indication of grammatical gender for the narrator or the narrator's love interest, A***. Her second novel, <i>Ciels liquides</i> (Grasset, 1990), told the fate of a character losing the use of language. In <i>La D馗omposition</i> (Grasset, 1999), a serial killer methodically murdered characters from Marcel Proust's <i>In Search of Lost Time</i>. She met Oulipian Jacques Roubaud in Vienna in 1993, and was invited to present her work at an Oulipo seminar in March 1994 and again in May 2000, which led to her joini