Oulipian Novel?
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 07:56:08 CDT 2009
A totally new term to me. Has anyone else heard of this before?
http://www.conversationalreading.com/
Great Fire, and its companion, The Loop, are Oulipian novels, and one
of the constraints dictating their composition is that they can only
be written in the dark, predawn hours before sunrise. Another
constraint—a little trickier—is that everything in the book must be
the truth, or as close to the truth as Roubaud can make it at the time
of writing: not just in the sense of the author telling us only what
he believes to be true, but also in that he must be truthful about the
process of his work, and therefore his thought.
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