Oulipian Novel?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Yep.

In an essay on TCoL49, Pierre-Yves Pétillon writes, among other things,
about how the French literati found the novel most Oulipian when it
came out. The essay is included in the following collection:
http://assets.cambridge.org/97805213/81635/sample/9780521381635ws.pdf


Heikki

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, James Kyllo wrote:

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