Garréta is the first member of the Oulipo to be born after the founding of the Oulipo. Sphinx is Garréta’s first novel to appear in English.Īnne Garréta will participate to a two-day conference untitled "Feminism's Abject Selves: Beauvoir, Leduc, Wittig", on April 17-18, 2015 at the Maison Française of Columbia University.
Sphinx is the debut novel, originally published in 1986, of the inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of OuLiPo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, and Raymond Queneau, among others. Sphinx is a remarkable work of literary ingenuity: a beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, “I,” and A., written completely without any gendered pronouns or gender markers referring to the main characters, all the more difficult in the strict gender requirements of the French language.
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