Our Beautiful Heroine Review

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Our Beautiful Heroine ReviewOulipo nevertheless begun in 1960, by the mathematician Francois Le Lionnais and novelist Raymond Queneau, as a experimental group devoted to writing that used mathematical formulas and linguistic games. This group valued the writing of some of the most eccentric, anti-mimetic, writers of the past: Laurence Sterne, Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Ronald Firbank, Gertrude Stein, and of course Raymond Roussel. Roussel, the champion of the imagination, travelled all over the world, yet stayed locked in his room or in an ancient mobile home for fear that experience might impinge and influence his writing.
Much more radical than their predecessors, Oulipo members would use more restricting rules to produce works. Harry Mathews suggests that this is a way of freedom of the imagination. Mathews, who detests the notion of automatic writing which he thinks is naive and impotent, once said that "why not write within a system of restraint (like a sonata), that the writer chooses beforehand, rather than be a slave of a system that one is ignorant of."
Some of the outrageous works that have appeared over the years are many, to the shock of everyone. Queneau has written One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, a book of 10 sonnets arranged in strips so that each line of each poem can be changed and altered, living up to the title. Perec has written a book that is a palindrome, as well as a book called The Disappearance which does not use the letter "e."
Italo Calvino has written a book which reflects on itself: If On A Winter's Night A Traveler. He also wrote Mr. Palomar, where the narrative is controlled, more descriptive or more meditative, by an elaborate numerical system based on 3.
Lionnais has invented the n-7 algorithm where you can take any passage and replace the nouns with the seventh nouns in the dictionary that follows them. Mathews has his own algorithm where you take four words and exchange letters to make new words. Mathews has also taken familiar saying and shifted their parts: "When in Rome/ Few chosen,/ Six of one/ Are another man's poison."
Is that confusing enough? Sounds like something that will fade as fast as any other trend, but Oulipo have been around for almost thirty years. And their members: Queneau, Lionnais, Calvino, Perec, Mathews, and Jacques Roubaud are some of the writers with the strongest reputations in contemporary fiction.
Many people would object to this type of literature, but those are people that are putting certain demands on fiction. Instead of pursuing the truth and fictional revelations, Oulipo writers wants the reader to pursue the game itself. Storytelling should be more important than what is being said. Many readers feel cheated, but they are too willing to come to the conclusion.
Mathews, and other Oulipians, have used the devices of mystery writers to get the reader initiated in the book. Like Mathews' The Conversions the reader feels that something mysterious is happening but he cannot put his finger on it. Mathews makes sure that the reader never will.
Our Beautiful Heroine, by Jacques Roubaud, has more of the qualities of mystery stories but breaks with the conventions at the same time. Roubaud is quoted as saying that "I wanted to write an inoffensive work." I do not know if this is possible.
This novel has the qualities of film noir. The story relates the crimes occurring in a Parisian neighborhood which I cannot locate on a map (I must believe that this city exist only in my imagination). The characters include the unmistakable Inspector Blognard, who has infallible memory, and his assistant Arapede. The beautiful woman, or heroine, Hortense, who lives down the street where the last crime took place. She studies philosophy and goes to school. She falls in love with the Man from Bus Line T, who seems involved with the crimes, and steals her shoes.
Hortense misses her exams with Professor Orsells, because she spends so much time with her new lover: she has no time to study. Inspector Blognard is baffled about the case. The only witness to the crime is Alexander Vladimirovich, a tomcat and voyeur, to busy with his own love affair to solve the crime.
The narrator, Mornacier, is an aspiring crime novelist. He fights with the supposed author of the book (Roubaud?). Mornacier shuffles up the narrative and goes off the track just in spite of the author. The author apologizes, and makes his complaints to the narrator.
Our Beautiful Heroine does not quite end, it just gets more complicated. Inspector Blognard never solves the mystery, neither does the reader, and he arrests the wrong person. That is fine. Reading has never been a pleasure and a disappointment at the same time.Our Beautiful Heroine Overview

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