The End of Oulipo?: An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement by Lauren Elkin and Scott Esposito, and: Une nouvelle pratique littéraire en France: Histoire du groupe Oulipo de 1960 à nos jours / Creating a New French Literary Style: A History of the Oulipo Circle by Cécile De Bary (review)

Two recent texts join the field of research on the Oulipo writing group. The End of Oulipo?: An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement is a slim volume, mostly comprising two essays and a preface. Authors Lauren Elkin and Scott Esposito contribute one essay each, in which they address some of the issues that have arisen with the present-day Oulipo. Cécile De Bary’s Une nouvelle pratique littéraire en France: Histoire du groupe Oulipo de 1960 à nos jours is almost as brief, and assesses the Oulipo in terms of its evolution from experimental workshop to literary group.