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The event, co-sponsored by the Yale Translation Initiative will bring together Paul Fournel, Eduardo Berti, and Daniel Levin Becker *YC 96) and be moderated by Nichole Gleisner.

Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York, Room 136.

Join OuLiPo members Eduardo Berti, Paul Fournel, and Daniel Levin Becker as they discuss their latest collaborative project, an adaptation of Italo Calvino's Le città invisibili / Invisible Cities, which has been published as . This new iteration, honoring the 50th anniversary of the original, transposes Calvino’s seminal text and its groundbreaking structure to reflect on city life and city-dwellers today: What does it mean to live together? How can we manage and share resources in our fragile world? Berti, Fournel, and Levin Becker will also speak more generally about the OuLiPo — both as a lively literary institution and as a generative set of principles that lends itself fluidly to the art of translation. 

Speaker bios:

Eduardo Berti has been a member of the OuLiPo since 2014, becoming the group’s first Argentinean member. He has published many award-winning novels including Agua and La mujer de Wakefield, a retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Wakefield. He is also a translator from English into Spanish. Recently, he has published The Imagined Land (Deep Velum) and An Ideal Presence (Fern). 

Paul Fournel, longstanding OuLiPo, is a writer and has also worked at numerous ÌÇÐÄVlog publishing houses and as cultural attaché for the ÌÇÐÄVlog government abroad. His Les Athlètes dans leur tête received the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle. English translations of his books include Dear Reader (Pushkin) and Need for the Bike (Nebraska). 

Daniel Levin Becker, a graduate of YC ‘06, was elected to the OuLiPo in 2009. An editor, translator, and writer, he has written on the OuLiPo (Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature) and contemporary music (What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language), and has published English translations of works by Jakuta Alikavazovic, Éric Chevillard, and Laurent Mauvignier.

(Oulipo Ambigram by Basil Morin)