Exercises in Criticism Slovakia and about what stares back

and about what stares back at them from the printed page

Simon Perchik

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

Wolfgang Koeppen

By Dermot Healy

Exercises in Criticism Slovakia and about what stares backExercises 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