Sphinx

A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story.Author: Anne GarrétaPublisher: Deep Vellum PublishingPublished: 04/21/2015Pages: 152Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50dISBN: 9781941920091Review Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/2015 pg. 76About the AuthorAnne F. Garréta is the first member of the Oulipo to be born after the founding of the Oulipo. A normalien (graduate of France's prestigious École normale supérieure) and lecturer at the University of Rennes II since 1995, Anne F. Garréta 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, Sphinx (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, Ciels liquides (Grasset, 1990), told the fate of