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The contraintes, or formal rules for literary games, invented by the Oulipo group are nothing new in literature, as the group’s historian Pierre Bayard has noted. Russian literature offers many other examples of invented rules. Amongst these are the militant manifestos of the Cubo-Futurists; for instance, Aleksei Kruchenykh and Velimir Khlebnikov’s Word as Such (Slovo kak takovoe, 1913). A parallel from the 1980s, the Transfurist or Neofuturist grouping, included Sergei Sigei who invented a t... |