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Jacques Roubaud

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born

January 01, 1932 in Caluire-et-Cuire, France

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male

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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Jacques Roubaud (born 1932 in Caluire-et-Cuire, Rhône) is a French poet and mathematician.
He is a retired Mathematics professor from University of Paris X, a retired Poetry professor from EHESS 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 A...more

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Books by Jacques Roubaud

Average rating: 4.15 · 459 ratings · 53 reviews · 55 distinct works

	The Great Fire of London: A Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations by Jacques Roubaud, Dominic Di Bernardi (Translator) 4.19 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Some Thing Black by Jacques Roubaud, Rosmarie Waldrop 4.41 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart by Jacques Roubaud, Keith Waldrop (Translator), Rosemarie Waldrop (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis by Jacques Roubaud, Rosmarie Waldrop (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Loop by Jacques Roubaud, Jeff Fort (translator) (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Hortense is Abducted 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Poetry, etcetera: Cleaning House by Jacques Roubaud, Guy Bennett (Translation) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	La Belle Hortense (#1) 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hortense in Exile (Hortense, #3) 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Princess Hoppy or the Tale of the Labrador 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1993	My rating: