- Jacques Roubaud
Jacques Roubaud (born
1932 ) is a Frenchpoet andmathematician .A Mathematics teacher at University of Paris X and a member of the
Oulipo group, he has also published poetry, plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such asLewis Carroll 's "The Hunting of the Snark ".Roubaud's fiction often suppresses the rigorous constraints of the
Oulipo (while mentioning their suppression, thereby indicating that such constraints are indeed present), yet takes theOulipian self-consciousness of the writing act to an extreme. This simultaneity both appears playfully, with his Hortense novels, "Our Beautiful Heroine", "Hortense in Exile", and "Hortense is Abducted", and with the gravity and reflection of the writing act as the affirmation of one's worth and existence in "The Great Fire of London", considered the pinnacle of his prose.External links
* [http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/roubaud.html#theform Roubaud page at "Center for Book Culture"] list titles available through "Dalkey Archive" press; includes pertinent information on Roubaud's writing available in the United States
* [http://auteurs.contemporain.info/jacques-roubaud/ Documentation critique sur J. Roubaud / commented bibliography about Jacques Roubaud]:France-writer-stub::France-mathematician-stub
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