Harry Mathews

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1. Harry Mathews

   Author of Cigarettes, The Conversions (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)), The Case of the Persevering Maltese: Collected Essays (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))

2. Georges Perec

   Author of A Void, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Ellis Island

3. Raymond Queneau

   Author of Exercises in Style, The Last Days, Children of Clay (Sun and Moon Classics)

4. Jacques Roubaud

   Author of The Great Fire of London, Hortense in Exile, The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis

5. Raymond Roussel

   Author of Locus Solus, How I Wrote Certain Of My Books, Among the Blacks: Two Works

6. Thomas Bernhard

   Author of Concrete, Gargoyles, The Voice Imitator

7. David Markson

   Author of Wittgenstein's Mistress, This Is Not a Novel, Reader's Block

8. William H. Gass

   Author of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, Habitations of the Word: Essays

9. Henry Green

   Author of Back, Blindness, Caught

10. Gilbert Sorrentino

    Author of Mulligan Stew: A Novel, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, The orangery

11. Robert Walser

    Author of Jakob von Gunten, The Robber, Masquerade and Other Stories

12. B. S. Johnson

    Author of The Unfortunates, House Mother Normal, Albert Angelo

13. David Bellos

    Author of Georges Perec: A Life in Words : A Biography, The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Georges Perec Issue: Spring 2009 (The Review of Contemporary Fiction)

14. Walter Abish

    Author of How German Is It, Alphabetical Africa (New Directions Book), 99: The New Meaning (Burning Deck Fiction)

15. Italo Calvino

    Author of Oulipo Laboratory: Texts from the Bibliotheque Oulipienne (Anti-Classics of Dada.)

16. Stanley Elkin

    Author of George Mills, The Franchiser, The Dick Gibson Show

17. Rikki Ducornet

    Author of The Jade Cabinet, The Complete Butcher's Tales, The Stain

18. John Hawkes

    Author of Second Skin, The Frog, Virginie: Her Two Lives

19. Warren F. Motte

    Author of Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature

20. Guy Davenport

    Author of Da Vinci's Bicycle, The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing, The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers