Friday, June 27, 6-8pm
Free
Please join us as we launch the latest Libellula from
Proteotypes, the publishing arm of Proteus Gowanus.
Painting at Dora was written by François Le Lionnais in 1945, months after his escape from the forced labor camp at Dora-Nordlingen. The memoir movingly describes the game (or spiritual practice) he played with a comrade, in order to keep from despair in brutal circumstances. In 1960, Le Lionnais went on to found, with Raymond Queneau, the OuLiPo — the French association of writers and mathematicians dedicated to producing constraints for literary and other sorts of
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Posted in Events on June 19, 2014 • Tagged daniel levin becker, francois le lionnais, Libellulæ, oulipo, proteotypes, writhing society
