Cent mille milliards de poèmes

Creative Work
Author: 
Raymond Queneau
Year: 
1961
Language: 
French
Publication Type: 
Print publication (antecedent)
Record Status: 
Approved record
Tags: 
combinatory poeticswriting under constraintOulipoantecedents
Description (in English): 

A book of sonnets were the pages are cut into strips so that you can combine the first line of one sonnet with the second line of any other sonnet and so on, thus generating, possibly, "a hundred thousand billion poems". An antecedent of computationally generated poetry.

Electronic Literature Directory entry: 
Electronic Literature Directory entry
Other language version: 
Cent mille milliards de poèmes (web version, 1997)

Critical writing that references this work:

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Creativity Support for Computational Literature Daniel C. Howe 2009
Písanie v interaktívnych médiách. Digitálna fikcia /Writing in the Interactive Media. Digital Fiction Zuzana Husárová 2009
Comedies of Separation: Toward a Theory of the Ludic Book Brian Kim Stefans 2011
Digital Media Archaeology: Interpreting Computational Processes Noah Wardrip-Fruin 2011
Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations Roberto Simanowski 2011
Language as Gameplay: toward a vocabulary for describing works of electronic literature Brian Kim Stefans 2012
Electronic Literature Publishing and Distribution in Europe Markku Eskelinen, Giovanna Di Rosario 2012
Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory Markku Eskelinen 2012
Next Generation Literary Machines: The “Dynamic Network Aesthetic” of Contemporary Poetry Generators Holly Dupej 2012
The Emergence of Electronic Literature Exhibition Catalogue Scott Rettberg, Jill Walker Rettberg 2013
Barroquismos Digitais Otávio Guimarães Tavares 2013
An Emerging Canon? A Preliminary Analysis of All References to Creative Works in Critical Writing Documented in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base Scott Rettberg 2013
Pour une littérature cyborg : l'hybridation médiatique du texte littéraire Anaïs Guilet 2013
The Marketization of Net Art Søren Bro Pold, Christian Ulrik Andersen 2013
A Literatura Factorial [l!] Álvaro Seiça 2013
The Digital Reception of a Hundred Thousand Billion Poems Jonathan Baillehache 2014
Multimodal Editing and Archival Performance: A Diagrammatic Essay on Transcoding Experimental Literature Manuel Portela 2014
Nonlinear Writing Astrid Ensslin 2014
Border Connections in Electronic Literature Carles Sora 2015
Autorschaft und digitale Literatur: Geschichte, Medienpraxis und Theoriebildung Heiko Zimmermann 2015
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