A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go

by Jacques Roubaud, Pierre Lusson, Georges Perec

Written by a mathematician, a poet and a mathematician-poet, this 1969 guide to the ancient Japanese game of Go was not only the first such guide to be published in France (and thereby introduced the centuries-old game of strategy into that country) but something of a subtle Oulipian guidebook to writing strategies and tactics.

As in the Oulipian strategy of writing under constraint, the role of structured gameplay (within literature and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939663431
• ISBN13: 9781939663436
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Wakefield Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.5" x 7.0"