Jacques Jouet


[image:Jacques Jouet salon du Livre 2012 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Jacques Jouet in 2012.]
Jacques Jouet is a French writer and has been a participating member of the Oulipo literary project since 1983.
He is a poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and plasticine artist specializing in collages. As a member of l'Oulipo, Jouet became its focus in June 2009 when he began publicly writing a serialized novel in five days. He first became involved with Oulipo in 1978, stemming from a writing course directed by Paul Fournel, Georges Perec, and Jacques Roubaud.
His serial The Republic of Mek Ouyes was broadcast simultaneously on radio and on the web, through the site of his publisher, P.O.L.
Jouet wrote Poèmes de métro while riding the underground trains of the Paris Métro.

Works

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Literary

Le directeur du Musée des cadeaux des chefs d'État de l'étrangerAnnette et l'EtnaPoèmes de Métro Mon bel autocar Actes de la machine rondeL'amour comme on l'apprend à l'école hôtelièreUne mauvaise maire
  • ''MRM''

Collected works

  • Numerous volumes of La Bibliothèque oulipienne, Seghers and Le Castor astralLes Papous dans la tête, l'anthologie, with Bertrand Jérôme and Françoise Treussard, Gallimard, 2007Le Dictionnaire des Papous dans la tête, with Françoise Treussard, Gallimard, 2007

Théâtre

Mitterrand et Sankara, staged in 2005, reopened in 2008 at the Théâtre Nanterre-AmandiersLa République de Mek Ouyes, staged in 2006 at the Théâtre Nanterre-AmandiersL'amour au travail
  • ''La chatte bottée''