Jacques Roubaud

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Jacques Roubaud (born 1932) is a French poet and mathematician.

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 as Lewis 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 the Oulipian 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.

[edit] External links

• 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

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