Oulipian Novel?

[Joseph Tracy]

Have not heard of it either, but a very interesting literary  
religion, sounds as difficult  as Christianity or Buddhism. Do you  
get help from the great predawn spirit?
On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:56 AM, David Morris wrote:

> 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.