«OrLiPo? What is that? What is OU? What is LI? What is PO? OU is Workshop (Ouvroir) To make what? LI. Li is Literature. What kind of LI? LIPO. PO stands for Potential. Literature in unlimited quantity, potentially producible until the end of time for any practical purpose. »Marcel Bénabou & Jacques Roubaud

"We call potential literature the search for new forms and structures that can be used by writers as they see fit." Raymond Queneau

This book brings together for the first time in Spanish an exhaustive series of texts produced by the members of the Oulipo, the French Potential Literature Workshop, founded in 1960 by the writer Raymond Queneau and the mathematician François Le Lionnais, who continues his activity today . His objective, playful but also scientific, was always to stimulate the creation of literary works using writing techniques based on restrictions (contraintes): the Oulipo invents and traces creative procedures, structures and formal limitations to produce texts that find in those restrictions a luck of freedom. It is not a literary movement, nor a theoretical school, but a group or laboratory of writers accomplices, united by a common search: that of potential literature.

Defined by themselves as "rats who build the labyrinth from which they set out," the Oulipo has famous members from different countries like Georges Perec (who delivered the Oulipian novel par excellence, La disparition, in which, applying a lipogram, Never appears the letter e), Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Paul Fournel, Jacques Roubaud, Marcel Bénabou, Eduardo Berti, and until Marcel Duchamp, and it enjoys a permanent renovation and an amazing vitality.

With the inclusion of manifests, essays on the invention of new restrictions, fun literary exercises, and a box of ideas with a list of activities applicable to writing, this book pursues the idea of ​​linking readers with the decisive contributions of Oulipo in The profuse field of so-called experimental literature.