Cent Mille Milliards De Poèmes by Raymond Queneau
An experimental, game-like volume made of ten fourteen-line sonnets whose lines are printed as interchangeable strips so readers can recombine corresponding lines mechanically, yielding 10^14 possible poems; the work uses this strict formal constraint to explore how rhythm, rhyme and syntax accommodate permutation, to reveal shifting meanings, and to make the reader an active co-creator in a playful examination of language and chance.
- Published
- 1961
- Nationality
- French
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- Unknown
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- Original Language
- French
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- - One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems
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