Taxonomy of Detective Story Plots
October 31, 2006 3:42 PM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

Can someone point me to an online copy of the taxonomy of detective story plots done by either the Oulipo or the Oulipopo? My Google-fu is failing me.

I think I owned the book that has it at one point but can't seem to find it.
I'm considering running through all of them for my nanowrimo attempt.
posted by juv3nal to writing & language (3 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
It's not The Oulipo Compendium is it?

more on oulipo
wikipedia on oulipo
posted by LobsterMitten at 4:50 PM on October 31, 2006


more to dig through here
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:41 PM on October 31, 2006


Oulipo compendium (which I own) has an excerpt from it, but I once owned (maybe still do? if so, can't find it) something with the full text. Grr...at least prompting me to go look at the entry in the compendium has furnished me with some more googling terms. Apparently it's called "Towards a definition of the Perfect Crime" and, as I suspected, was done by the oulipopo rather than the oulipo proper.
posted by juv3nal at 8:38 PM on October 31, 2006


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