With the 5 Coups de l'OuLiPo, for 5 days, 5 happy lions members of the OuLiPo, founded by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais, brightened up the Rond Point with their "free writing with constraints"…
"An invigorating sports session" with 5 members of OuLiPo…
A stage with a very sober décor: five chairs – five tables. On the tables, some seemingly very neutral but very promising elements of a muscular session, at least for the brain: books, papers, leaflets …
The public knows it, by coming to see and especially listen to five representatives of the OULIPO, experts in literary games, it will not stay on its end. This time, Marcel BENABOU, Paul FOURNEL, Hervé LE TELLIER and Olivier SALON as well as Eduardo BERTI offer us for an hour and a half to talk to us about sport. We missed love – and sex – by a day, they say…
… For the brain!
They then embarked on readings of authors' texts or personal writings. Sometimes accompanied by an explanatory and vertiginous video, a few laps of live velocipedes wheels, the winks are subtle. They surprise us with unusual sports definitions, make us tremble at the end of a mountaineer's rope, make us breathless in the adventures of the kid who learns cycling. And finally make us discover the art of the "poem foosball". In short, a whole program that tickles the brains as much as the zygomatics.
Thus, always in a tasty style filled with tricks and phonetic and grammatical pearls, they juggle with the sound of words and the assemblages of absurd, poetic and facetious ideas.
And since the public asks for more, the five Oulipiens offer him a participation to play with a "Chicagos" from which he comes out ruffled and smiling with a smile on his lips taking with him a great dose of pleasure and verbal flavor.
