Sphinx

By Anne Garréta Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan Recipient of the French Embassy's Hemingway Grant for Translation A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story. Publication Date: April 21, 2015 Paperback: 9781941920091 eBook: 9781941920084 Description Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others. A beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, "I," and their lover, A***, written without using any gender markers to refer to the main characters, Sphinx is a remarkable linguistic feat and paragon of experimental literature that has never b