Machines à écrire

A CD-ROM focused on combinatorial literature. Published in 1999, re-released in 2004.

In the footsteps of Raymond Queneau and Georges Perec ...

A story your way Intuitive discovery of this interactive story created by Queneau. Visual and auditory cues invite you to compose your version of the story of the "trois alertes petits pois."

Hundred thousand billion poems Set of five original scenes of the work of Queneau that allow you to manipulate and listen to these poems.

243 postcards true colors Traveling by "listening" this amazing collection of maps designed by Georges Perec and learn about the secrets of this particular art: writing a good postcard. Where the simplest texts hide learned processes.

Writing workshops: games and experiments A great tool to compose texts and enage in combinatorial play with a lexical lottery, factory postcards, treatment of factorial text ...

The wide world of combinatorial literature Before our eyes, the works of forty writers (Molière, Jarry, Tzara, Beckett, Burroughs ...) deform and recompose to reveal hidden text or unmask a writing constraint.

(Source: trans. of Gallimard catalgoue copy)