MATHEWS, Harry

Educated in music at Harvard and then at the ikole Normale de Musique in Paris, Mathews has, not unlike other experimental American writers before and since, lived most of his adult life abroad. At the service of prosaic plots, Mathews uses highly original and playful language, as would be expected of the only active American member of Oulipo who is based in Paris; and, like other experimental writers, he works in more than one genre. Linguistic possibilities appear to be his...