Stanley Chapman

Stanley Chapman (15 September 1925 – 26 May 2009) was a British architect, designer, translator and writer. His interests included theatre and pataphysics. He was involved with founding the National Theatre of London, was a member of Oulipo of the year 1960, founder of the Outrapo and a member also of the French Collège de 'Pataphysique, the London Institute of 'Pataphysics and the Lewis Carroll Society. His English translation of Hundred Thousand Billion Poems was received with "admiring stupefaction" by Raymond Queneau.

Some publications

• Onze mille verbes, cent virgules Temps Mêlés n° 98, Verviers, 1969.
• L’impromptu de Jussieu Dourdan, 1998.
• Cosmilidin Dourdan, 1998.
• Messaline au Bistrot Dragée Haute n°21. 1996. Publié par Noël Arnaud.
• Epopélerinage Dragée Haute n°35. 1999. Publié par Noël Arnaud.

Some translations

• Everyone Knows
• Darwin certainly saw the importance of the earthworm
• Heartsnatcher by Boris Vian
• Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian
• Liberty or Love by Robert Desnos
• Camille Renault, 1866-1954, World-Maker. by Jean Hugues Sainmont

External links

• http://www.fatrazie.com/stanley_chapman.htm
• l'Oulipo site (in French)
• l'Outrapo site (in French)
• L.I.P. website