Exercises in Criticism Slovakia and the novels of Felipe

and the novels of Felipe Alfau—a hymn to mystery and to the power of fiction

What results from this simple action is

surrounded by nothing

Viktor Shklovsky

rhythms from the avant-garde to boogie-woogie

Exercises in Criticism Slovakia and the novels of FelipeExercises in Criticism is an experiment in applied poetics in which critic and poet Louis Bury utilizes constraint based methods in order to write about constraint based literature. Exercises in Criticism is an experiment in applied poetics in which critic and poet Louis Bury utilizes constraint based methods in order to write about constraint based literature. By tracing the lineage and enduring influence of early Oulipian classics, he argues that