\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSphinx\u003c/i\u003e is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garr\u0026#233;ta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, \"I,\" and their lover, A***, written without using any gender markers to refer to the main characters, \u003ci\u003eSphinx\u003c/i\u003e is a remarkable linguistic feat and paragon of experimental literature that has never been accomplished before or since in the strictly-gendered French language.\u003c/P\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSphinx\u003c/i\u003e is a landmark text in the feminist and LGBT literary canon appearing in English for the first time.\u003c/P\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Garr\u0026#233;ta\u003c/b\u003e (b. 1962) is a lecturer at the University of Rennes II and research professor of literature and Romance studies at Duke University. She joined the Oulipo in 2000, becoming the first member to join born after the Oulipo was founded. Garr\u0026#233;ta won France's prestigious Prix M\u0026#233;dicis in 2002, awarded each year to an author whose \"fame does not yet match their talent,\" for her novel \u003ci\u003ePas un jour\u003c/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Ramadan\u003c/b\u003e is a graduate of Brown University and received her master's in literary translation from the American University of Paris. Her translation of Anne Parian's \u003ci\u003eMonospace\u003c/i\u003e is forthcoming from La Presse. She is currently on a Fulbright Fellowship for literary translation in Morocco.\u003c/div\u003e
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