Sphinx is the amazing debut novel, initially released in 1986, via the exceptionally gifted and artistic French writer Anne Garréta, one of many few woman individuals of Oulipo, the influential and particular French experimental literary workforce whose venture is to create literature in line with mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks comprise Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, between others.

A appealing and intricate love tale among characters, the narrator, "I," and their lover, A***, written with no utilizing any gender markers to consult the most characters, Sphinx is a amazing linguistic feat and paragon of experimental literature that hasn't ever been complete sooner than or on account that within the strictly-gendered French language.

Sphinx is a landmark textual content within the feminist and LGBT literary canon showing in English for the 1st time.

Anne Garréta (b. 1962) is a lecturer on the collage of Rennes II and examine professor of literature and Romance stories at Duke collage. She joined the Oulipo in 2000, changing into the 1st member to affix born after the Oulipo was once based. Garréta gained France's prestigious Prix Médicis in 2002, provided every year to an writer whose "fame doesn't but fit their talent," for her novel Pas un jour.

Emma Ramadan is a graduate of Brown collage and bought her master's in literary translation from the yankee college of Paris. Her translation of Anne Parian's Monospace is imminent from los angeles Presse. She is presently on a Fulbright Fellowship for literary translation in Morocco.