Oulipian Novel?

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "James Kyllo" <jkyllo at gmail.com>
To: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
Cc: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Oulipian Novel?


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

I remember reading a novel a few years ago that had been labelled oulipian 
or at least influenced by the oulipian school but I can't remember its name 
or anything else about it.

I think the point of oulipo is that, by putting some important contraint on 
the writing. the work will reveal something that would otherwise not come 
light.

Here's an idea: Let 's try discussing VL for a week without using the word 
facisist or fascistic.

Might reveal something new.

Worth a try.

P





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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
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> 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?
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>> http://www.conversationalreading.com/
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>> 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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