Daniel Levin Becker became the youngest Oulipan in 2009 shortly after he graduated from Yale. His history of this colorful and thought-provoking movement is written from the perspective of both an insider and educated admirer. He offers insight onto Oulipan philosophy, history, and technique.

Perhaps the most famous Oulipian work, A Void (La Disparition) is a novel with no E's about the disappearance of Anton Vowl.

Oulipo co-founder Raymond Queneau tells the same banal short story 99 times using 99 different styles: from sonnet to onomatopoeia to Cockney.

In what is perhaps Italo Calvino's most beloved book, Marco Polo describes to Kublai Khan the cities he has visited in this travels. The book has a complex mathematical structure.

Sphinx is a love story with no gender markers. First published in France in 1986, it was published in English in 2015.

26 characters from Anna and Ben to Yolande and Zach, pair up for an intricate crisscrossing of 78 sexual encounters.

One Hundred Twenty-One Days retraces the lives of French mathematicians over several generations during World Wars I and II. The narrative oscillates stylistically from chapter to chapter, sometimes resembling a novel, at others a fable, historical research, or a diary, locking and unlocking codes, culminating in a captivating, original reading experience.

In this metafictional mystery, a 22-year-old philosophy student is kidnapped and a dog is murdered - the imaginary country of Poldevia is somehow involved. The novel is arranged in the form of a sestina (replete with authorial asides and plenty of puns, jokes and wordplay).

Based on an actual bus trip across France taken by Oulipo-member Jacques Jouet in the late ’80s, his fictional reconstruction of the experience twenty years later focuses not so much on the scenery as on the possibilities offered an author by the eponymous vehicle and its occupants.

Old-school publisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues.