Oulipian Novel?

[James Kyllo]

You'll be familiar with some of the writers and works, if not the term

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo


J

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:56 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> 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.
>
>



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