- Paul Fournel
Paul Fournel (born May 20, 1947 in
Saint-Étienne ) is a French writer, poet, publisher, and cultural ambassador. Fournel wrote his master's thesis on Raymond Queneau and published the first book-length study of theOulipo , "Clefs pour la littérature potentielle" ("Keys to potential literature"). He joined theOulipo , first as "slave," then (in 1972) as full member, and he currently serves both as the Provisionally Definitive Secretary and the President of that group. He is also a regent of the College of'Pataphysics .Fournel has worked at various publishing houses, notably Hachette, Honoré Champion, Ramsay, and Seghers. From 1996 to 2000 he was director of the
Alliance Française inSan Francisco , and from 2000 to 2003 he was the French cultural attaché inCairo . He is currently France's cultural attaché inLondon Publications
# Clefs pour la littérature potentielle, 1972
# L’Equilatère, 1972
# L’histoire véritable de Guignol, 1975
# Les petites filles respirent le même air que nous, 1978
# Les grosses rêveuses, 1981
# Les aventures très douces de Timothée le rêveur, 1982
# Un rocker de trop, 1982
# Les Athlètes dans leur tête, 1988 (adaptée en pièce de théatre avec pour comédien André Dussolier)
# Un homme regarde une femme, 1994
# Le jour que je suis grand, 1995
# Guignol, les Mourguet, 1995
# Pac de Cro détective, 1997
# Toi qui connais du monde, poèmes, 1997
# Alphabet Gourmand, 1998, avec Harry Mathews et Boris Tissot
# Foraine, 1999,
# Besoin de vélo, essai, 2001; [http://books.google.com/books?id=bLUZsguUfZcC&dq=need+for+the+bike&pg=PP1&ots=q7wqBl5udV&sig=QOmn8l1bynKe0Mmd_cl_jcEczGU&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=need+for+the+bike&btnG=Google+Search&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPP1,M1 Need for the Bike] , trans. Allan Stoekl
# Timothée dans l'arbre, 2003,
# Poils de cairote, 2004
# Chamboula, 2007
# Les animaux d'amour, 2007External links
* [http://www.paulfournel.com Fournel's web site (French)]
* [http://www.oulipo.net/oulipiens/PF Fournel's page in the official Oulipo web site (French)]
* [http://drunkenboat.com/db8/oulipo/feature-oulipo/oulipo/texts/fournel/45yrs_en.html "Oulipo at 45" by Paul Fournel]
* [http://drunkenboat.com/db8/oulipo/feature-oulipo/oulipo/texts/fournel/mistake_en.html "Our Mistake" by Paul Fournel]
* [http://www.uprightdown.com/aroundthebush.html A short play by Paul Fournel at UpRightDown]
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