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	Harry Mathews
		In 1970 Mathews met the French writer Georges Perec; there began a period of literary collaboration and friendship that only ended with the Frenchman’s death in 1982.
		Perec introduced Mathews to the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (the Oulipo), a group of mathematicians and writers devoted to the investigation of constrictive forms and procedures.
		From 1949 to 1961 Mathews was married to Niki de Saint Phalle, by whom he had two children.
	www.alb-neckar-schwarzwald.de /mathews/bio-e.html (248 words)

	OuLiPo - Les oulipiens / Harry Mathews
		Harry Mathews, Sainte Catherine, POL, 2000, 58 p.
		Harry Mathews, Georges Perec and Jacques Roubaud, 53 jours roman texte établi par Harry Mathews et Jacques Roubaud, Gallimard, 1993, 304 p.
		Harry Mathews, Georges Perec and Jacques Roubaud, 53 jours roman texte établi par Harry Mathews et Jacques Roubaud, POL, 1989, 333 p.
	www.oulipo.net /oulipiens/HM/bibliographie (1348 words)

	Harry Mathews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harry Mathews (February 14, 1930 -) is an American author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays.
		Harry Mathews was, after Marcel Duchamp, the second American chosen for membership in the French literary society known as the Oulipo, which is dedicated to exploring new possibilities in literature, in particular through the use of various constraints and algorithms.
		Mathews is the inventor of "Mathews' Algorithm," a method for producing literary works by transmuting elements (for instance, a starting text) according to a predetermined set of rules.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Mathews (1499 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Harry Mathews
		As we have come to expect from a Harry Mathews novel, nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, but we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having an affair with Elizabeth, who lives with Maud.
		Harry Mathews was born and raised on New York’s Upper East Side‚ but left America for France in 1952 shortly after graduating from Harvard.
		Mathews frequently is wise, as when he peers inward at the fluttery life of his own mind.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/mathews.html (2621 words)

	COMPOSING: Harry Mathews' Words & Worlds
		Mathews excels at the use of lexical constrait in teaching and in his own compositions, and he has pioneered new sorts of constraint, including the chronogram, in which all the letters in a text corresponding to Roman numerals sum to a particular calendar year that is the topic of the text.
		Mathews is a poet as well as a novelist; his poems are as stylistically and thematically varied as are his novels.
		Mathews uses diagrams as part of his process of literary composition to represent the structure of his narrative, structrues that occur within the story, and structures that his characters are imposing upong themselves.
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/mathews/mathews.html (1153 words)

	THE BROOKLYN RAIL - BOOKS
		Harry Mathews is the only American member of the OULIPO, the Workshop for Potential Literature, France’s longest-lasting, and most active, literary movement.
		Mathews: My Life in CIA is the first time that someone called Harry Mathews is the “I,” though in fact all of my novels are written in the [first person].
		Mathews: Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they’re saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
	www.thebrooklynrail.org /books/june05/harrymathews.html (1731 words)

	Madinkbeard » My Life in CIA by Harry Mathews
		One part of the book involves Mathews’ first meeting with his future wife (though he makes no indication of her as his wife or future wife in the text).
		The brief inclusion of this meeting only tangentially fits in the with the narrative’s main thrust, but, like a memoir, it provides those realistic touches that make the work seem more memoir (he sees her, finds out who she is, and then she doesn’t appear again).
		It begins in such a way that one believes it to be autobiography –with Mathews deciding to pretend he is a spy–but then a genre thriller slowly integrates itself into the story, almost unnoticed until suddenly the situation is fantastic.
	madinkbeard.com /blog/archives/my-life-in-cia-by-harry-mathews (1096 words)

	Harry Mathews at the Complete Review
		Mathews studied music, and this knowledge and interest (as well as his interest in mathematics -- see Mathews's Algorithm) is also reflected in his writing.
		Mathews' sense of humour makes most of the exercises quite enjoyable.
		Occasionally the artifice might seem too striking, but Mathews is generally able to show the value of the method of his madness.
	www.complete-review.com /authors/mathewsh.htm (544 words)

	A forceful habit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The latest of the Harry Mathews reissues is addicted to discovery through language.
		Mathews weaves remarkable hues of compassion and coercion into his cast of personalities: passively naive, hugely generous or pathologically fearful of being swindled, excluded or duped.
		Among the ways Mathews' characters break that conditioning include: sadomasochistic games (which come off somehow touching and hilarious); physical and mental illness (sickness being an especially violent form of destruction); and the more conventional teacher-student relationships, as between these two writers: "Morris was showing him what writing could do.
	www.metrotimes.com /arts/lq/19/Winter/Cigs.html (651 words)

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		Mathews speaks several languages, attends a performance of Swan Lake at the Louvre courtyard featuring prima ballerina Natalia Makarova, and ends up in bed with one beautiful woman after another.
		In it, the main character - Harry Mathews - lives in Paris, lunches on cold faux filet and sips on Cornas, a light Rhone wine, encounters a lovely woman who engages him in a serial Tantric sexual encounter, and, yes, pretends to act as an agent for CIA.
		In e-mail interview (Mathews is currently in Paris), he reported that the genesis of the book began when he started to write a short account of how he got his CIA reputation.
	www.keynoter.com /articles/2005/06/24/lattitudes/lat03.txt (1263 words)

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		Harry Mathews - Short biography of the American poet and novelist (*1930).
		Harry Mathews at the Complete Review - An overview of the life and works of Harry Mathews, with links to reviews and further information.
		Jacket # 14 - Harry Mathews - Rue de Rochechouart - In celebration of the centenary of the brassiere, invented by M. Hardt in Dresden in 1889.
	n-tier.com /Dir/dir.asp?cat=/Arts/Literature/Authors/M/Mathews,_Harry (507 words)

	The Riddling Effect: Rules and Unruliness in the Work of Harry Mathews
		The aim of the present Mathews gathering is certainly not to bring "high" postmodernism back to life, or, for that matter, to ironize the rekindled interest among contemporary fiction writers in more traditional narrative structures (which is interesting in itself).
		Reading Harry Mathews means constantly being reminded of a defect in mimetic function, which at the same time hints at a different, somehow fuller reality.
		As Mathews himself has suggested, "tlooth" can be interpreted as a sort of contamination of the word "truth," as a Chinese person might pronouce it, and "tooth," which is a recurring motif in the novel.
	www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/wuc/dense (3230 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Conversions: Books: Harry Mathews,Harry Matthews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Harry Mathews is the most important novelist writing in the English language that no one reads.
		The Conversions is essentially about solving a riddle, but the search for its answer allows Mathews to do what he's best at: telling stories, and in all respects displaying a love for and engaging with the potential of language.
		If you've not read Mathews before, this book will get you hooked; you'll soon want to read his novels, his essays, poems and other pieces, and will soon recognize that he is an American master, one whose works will only grow in stature with the years.
	www.amazon.ca /Conversions-Harry-Mathews/dp/1564781666 (511 words)

	fakejazz: My Life in CIA (Harry Mathews, 2005)
		As an American writer living among the literary avant-garde of 1970's Paris, Harry Mathews aroused suspicion.
		Mathews emphasizes the finer proclivities of high culture - dinners seem to take a central role in the book, recalling the food fascination of his "Country Cooking" short story - but with a bit of a mocking attitude towards the spoils of the wealthy.
		This type of self-effacing humour is carried through the entirety of the novel, eventually resembling a parody of spy narratives.
	www.fakejazz.com /fake/archives/2005/05/my_life_in_cia.php (675 words)

	CONTEXT: John Beer Reading Harry Mathews
		It is disarmingly easy, reading Mathews, to get caught up in the Oulipian spirit, combining as it does the generosity of a pure research program with the slightly mad insistence upon formal pattern, characteristic of the genuine artist.
		Mathews is the only American member of the Oulipo, the ongoing workshop in the application of mathematical methods, particularly algebraic methods of permutation and combination to literature, which Raymond Queneau and Francois Le Lionnais founded in 1960.
		Mathews is as attentive to the pleasure of his readers as to that of his characters.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no8/beer.html (1934 words)

	The Believer - Harry Mathews's MY LIFE IN CIA
		Harry Mathews is an absurdist and the only American member of the French experimental literary organization OuLiPo.
		No more than four people alive today would mistake Mathews for a secret agent, but in the late 1960s, after a vacation in Laos to visit a friend who also happened to be a British diplomat, Mathews found himself the subject of a rumor linking him with the CIA.
		Exasperated, Mathews decided to begin acting the part he’d been arbitrarily assigned, and this is where the central action of My Life in CIA, a novel disguised as a memoir disguised as a novel, takes root.
	www.believermag.com /issues/200505/?read=review_mathews (285 words)

	Introducing Harry Mathews...
		I'd like to begin, sheepishly, by mentioning how the writing of Harry Mathews came into my literary life, and then say just a few things about the purposes of and principles behind the exhibit, and finally get on to introducing the man that everyone is waiting for, so that we can all hear Harry read.
		Just as I learned of Harry's writing in several ways, but was nudged to read further in Saint Marks Bookshop, and then at Boston University, I hope you will be encouraged to read Harry's work, or read more it, by this event today and by the exhibit here at the library.
		Harry: "And camp followers!"] But I don't think of Harry as some literary shock troop; I think of him as being part of the special operations of literature, taking over new territory in the night without notice, going places where conventional literature couldn't hope to go.
	nickm.com /misc/mathews_intro.html (1169 words)

	Selected Declarations of Dependence - Harry Mathews
		Harry Mathews' experimental fiction Selected Declarations of Dependence offers a dazzling array of variations on familiar ideas and phrases.
		Mathews focusses on the proverb as the building block of his prose.
		It is a somewhat dizzying unrolling of many variations on these approaches that follow, but Mathews varies between the perverbs and paraphrases, and intersperses brief episodes employing these devices (the most successful of which is An Interview with Chairman Mao Tsetung), keeping the reader entertained.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/mathewsh/selectdd.htm (538 words)

	Table of Forms—Bibliography
		This series of autobiographical ramblings was written while Mathews was in France and working actively with the Oulipo.
		This entire issue is devoted to Harry Mathews, the American Oulipo member.
		Similar to the Harry Mathews number above, this includes both writing of his, essays about him, and pages of valuable bibliographic information and footnotes.
	www.spinelessbooks.com /table/bibliography (1704 words)

	The Harry Mathews Exhibit
		manuscripts as well as all of Mathews' typescripts and correspondence through the mid-1990s, helps to illuminate a variety of formal and informal techniques that Mathews has used — and still is using — to explore new literary territory.
		On May 6, 2004, Harry came to Penn and did a wonderful reading at the Kamin Gallery, on the first floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, where the exhibit was located.
		I also wish to particularly thank Michael Ryan, director of special collections, for asking me to curate the exhibit and for supporting and overseeing it; Andrea Gottschalk for designing the exhibit; and Sam D'Iorio, who processed and organized materials from the collection and provided very valuable advice about what items should be included.
	www.nickm.com /misc/mathews.html (551 words)

	Amazon.com: The Journalist: A Novel: Books: Harry Mathews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mathews (Cigarettes) writes lucidly and with a great deal of sensitivity, but his form betrays him.
		Had Mathews allowed himself a more introspective narrator who could make the occasional astute perception about what it means to keep a journal, this would be a much better book.
		As an Oulipian, Mathews has emploed a poetical structive to create a world unto itself and has refined and updated his language with this novel which, in the context of contemporary Modernism, rivals both Nabokov's Pale Fire and Calvino's Mr.
	www.amazon.com /Journalist-Novel-Harry-Mathews/dp/1567920071 (1379 words)

	Harry Mathews - "The American Novel" - 1999 Key West Literary Seminar
		MATHEWS will be leading one of our writers' workshops this year.
		HARRY MATHEWS was born in New York on Valentine's Day 1930.
		In 1978 Mathews started teaching a semester in the United States each year, first at Bennington College, later at Columbia.
	www.keywestliteraryseminar.org /anovel/mathews.htm (379 words)

	Dances With Daffodils
		My favorite recent commentary on this poem is a version of it presented by the writer Harry Mathews at a lecture on the Oulipo in 1999, in Key West, Florida.
		Mathews, who respected Wordsworth's meter and rhyme in his N-plus-7 version of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," had to traverse many dictionary entries before finding a noun that rhymed with "daffodil" and was, like "daffodil," a dactyl—three syllables with the accent on the first syllable.
		While I was playing lexical hopscotch, an e-mail arrived from the thoughtful and generous Harry Mathews containing the entry on N plus 7 from the Oulipo Compendium, a reference work that he edited with Alastair Brotchie.
	www.theatlantic.com /issues/2002/04/rose.htm (1366 words)

	An Interview with Harry Mathews
		For me, part of the attraction of your books resides in the fact that they are written in a rather straightforward (almost officialese) fashion, but at the same time appear completely off the wall.
		Michael Boyden's essay "The Riddling Effect" contextualizes these three texts that Mathews refers to, all of which are now available on ebr: "The Dialect of the Tribe," "Fearful Symmetries," and "The Case of the Persevering Maltese."
		See Paul Harris's essay "Harry Mathews's Al Gore Rhythms: A Re-viewing of Tlooth, Cigarettes, and The Journalist" in which he rediscovers the senior American member of Oulipo on the occasion of three reprints from The Dalkey Archive Press.
	www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/wuc/foreignness (3578 words)

	Harry Mathews: My Life in CIA - Palimpsest
		For example, in the midst of espionage related mayhem, Mathews hooks up with a beautiful girl by the name of Marie-Claude Quintelpreaux.
		Friends of Mathews appear in the book, notably Georges Perec and Jean Tinguely (the former, a fellow oulipan, the later a renowned artist—he did the fountain outside the Pomipdou Center, with the wife he and Mathews had in common, Nikki de Saint Phalle).
		The book is full of impish fun; and the way Mathews integrates oulipan exercises into the narrative is exhilarating.
	www.palimpsest.org.uk /forum/showthread.php?p=25557 (1065 words)

	Harry Mathews; Out of Bounds
		Yet the poem is absolutely contemporary, especially in its license in pillaging the rich past to furbish the poet's vivid present.
		"Best (if not enough) known for his novels, Harry Mathews is also a poet, a most inventive American writer [whose] language makes intimate local structures of pleasure.
		Like Andres Serrano, Mathews is an artist of body fluids, of portable and compendious oceans.
	www.burningdeck.com /catalog/mathews.html (176 words)

	village voice > news > Should Writing Hurt? by Joseph McElroy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The dialect of the tribe: novelists Harry Mathews and Joseph McElroy share their recipes.
		Harry Mathews and Joseph McElroy met last week to talk—about the writing of fiction, strange maps of New York, and other topics—and celebrate the release of Mathews's The Human Country: New and Collected Stories (Dalkey Archive).
		Mathews, the author of five novels and several volumes of poetry and nonfiction, is the sole American member of the Oulipo, the legendary Paris-based "workshop for potential literature," whose members have included Italo Calvino and Georges Perec.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0243/mcelroy.php (1119 words)

	Jacket 14 -- Harry Mathews -- Rue de Rochechouart, In celebration of the centenary of the brassiere (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jacket 14 -- Harry Mathews -- Rue de Rochechouart, In celebration of the centenary of the brassiere
		The vision excited my curiosity not by its eroticism but as a first glimpse of the ways women themselves perceive their bodies.
		You can read other work by Harry Mathews in Issue # 3 of Jacket.
	jacketmagazine.com /14/mathews.html (281 words)

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