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""Written in an engaging and readable style, The Politics of Play is thoughtful, well informed, and a vital contribution to twentieth-century French studies."" --Alison James, University of Chicago ""Aubrey Gabel's wide-ranging and erudite book shows the many ways in which writers in the Oulipo used lexical games, humorous constraints, and linguistic acrobatics as playful veils for their subtle politics. The Politics of Play offers important historical contextualization for a literary collective not usually associated with political fervor, giving readers a more complex sense of the group's self-understanding and self-fashioning."" --Christy Wampole, Princeton University

“Written in an engaging and readable style, The Politics of Play is thoughtful, well informed, and a vital contribution to twentieth-century French studies.” —Alison James, University of Chicago “Aubrey Gabel's wide-ranging and erudite book shows the many ways in which writers in the Oulipo used lexical games, humorous constraints, and linguistic acrobatics as playful veils for their subtle politics. The Politics of Play offers important historical contextualization for a literary collective not usually associated with political fervor, giving readers a more complex sense of the group’s self-understanding and self-fashioning.” —Christy Wampole, Princeton University

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Aubrey Gabel is an assistant professor in the Department of French at Columbia University.

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