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...remarkable product was Cent Milie Milliards de Poems (A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems), written by the late Raymond Queneau, a novelist (Zazie dans le Metro) and co-founder of OuLiPo. The book consists of ten sonnets, ingeniously sliced into 14 strips. By flipping the strips left or right, the reader can construct 1014 intelligible poems. OuLiPo's lunatic fringework also included spoonerisms-deliberate slips of the tongue that gave different leanings to mexicons. Tales were written by the "decision tree" method used in programming computers, presenting the reader with choices. For example, Queneau's A Tale in Your...
...exceptional novelist's gift for making a reader believe in a character's predicaments even when he may not be lieve in the character...
...school prayer in the '60s and commercialism in the '70s. But the author's unwritten motto is always Multum in parvo (much in little). He avoids issues like integration and Viet Nam; the sharpest attacks concern mistakes that are less global than verbal. When the Reader's Digest changes one of his sentences, for example, he fires off a note to the publisher announcing that, unlike the vanilla bean, White does not wish to be extracted...
Switching back and forth from The Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock to the mother tale of October Light is a little like reading Terry Southern with a Robert Frost poem as chaser, or vice versa. But Sally (and the reader) gradually sees the connection. The characters of The Smugglers are also locked in demonic contest with their enemies-and themselves. They too know what Gardner seems to regard as the incurable and often suicidal addiction of modern man: a passion for absolute freedom that says, "I will be God or I will...
...Hercules or a one-man band: the hilarious spoofer of pulp fiction, the composer of Kierkegaardian monologues good and evil, the mini-historian of science, progress and civilization, and the pastoral poet. In addition he rounds off his complex work on a note of affirmation that the reader may find more determined than logical, like the highnote climax to a trumpet solo. For the hyphen that Gardner most ardently longs for is the one that might connect night to day, lost to found, chaos to order-all the enemies, all the opposites...