Fables of the Novel

Warren Motte is chair of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he specializes in contemporary writing and focuses particularly on experimental works that challenge conventional notions of literary form. He has written several studies of contemporary French Literature, including Fables of the Novel: French Fiction Since 1990, available from Dalkey Archive Press. Translator and editor of Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature, he also edited an issue of the journal SubStance dedicated to the work of Jacques Jouet, and is a contributing editor to Context magazine.

"Motte makes an attractive and useful case for the subspecies of modernism: minimalism... We can be grateful for this guidance through the maze toward the lively rewards that exist beyond." - Lee Fahnestock, World Literature Today "Small Worlds has much to offer... Those who sample even a chapter or two are likely to be sufficiently intrigued by Motte's stimulating presentation to want to read the original works." -- John T. Booker, French Review