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Hortense in Exile

Author: Jacques Roubaud, Dominic Di Bernardi

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Hortense is exiled to a foreign land that is actually six worlds that coexist simultaneously. Will she be rescued by the vacationing Blognard and Arapde? Or by Cyrandqo the Pony Prince? Or perhaps by the mysterious bald gentleman--possibly Jacques Roubaud himself? And did Emanuel Kant steal the ideas in his "Critique of Pure Reason" from the author of "Gone With the Wind"? These and other questions are explored in Roubaud's playful work of metafiction.

The Princess Hoppy, Or, the Tale of Labrador: Or, the Tale of Labrador

Author: Jacques Roubaud, Bernard Hoepffner

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The tale of a princess, her mathematically gifted dog, a lovesick hedgehog, two camels, and her four royal uncles. At the end, there are questions to test the reader, and all through the text there are math puzzles.

Hortense is Abducted

Author: Jacques Roubaud, Dominic Di Bernardi

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-- First paperback edition.

-- In this madcap metafictional mystery a 22-year-old philosophy student (Hortense) is kidnapped and a dog is murdered -- the imaginary country of Poldevia is somehow involved. Arranged in the form of a sestina (replete with authorial asides and plenty of puns, jokes and wordplay), this is the second installment in Roubaud's popular and widely acclaimed "Hortense" series.

-- A professor of mathematics at the University of Paris X Nanterre and a long time member of Oulipo, the Workshop for Potential Literature, Jacques Roubaud is the author of several novels and works of poetry.

-- First published in the U.S. by Dalkey Archive (1989).

The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart: One Hundred Fifty Poems (1991-1998)

Author: Jacques Roubaud, Keith Waldrop, Rosemarie Waldrop

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Featuring 150 poems, this strong collection explores Roubaud's many poetic modes. Comprised of 150 poems, with a title taken from Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal", Jacques Roubaud skips from the strict form of the sonnet to the freedom of prose poetry without abandoning the melancholy playfulness that has defined his lengthy writing career. A selection of 10 previously untranslated work, "The Shape of a City" contains a wide variety of forms and tones that work together to describe not only Paris, but also its people, its writers (and those of Oulipo in particular), its monumental past, and its unsteady response to change.

Our Beautiful Heroine

Author: Jacques Roubaud, Jacques Rouband, David Kornacker

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Poetry, Etcetera: Cleaning House

Author: Jacques Roubaud, Guy Bennett

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What is poetry today, and how does it fit into our daily lives? Through a series of intelligent and personal, often humorous, essays the great French poet and fiction writer explores the role of poetry and what poetry means to us. This is simultaneously a profound and enjoyable work on language and meaning.

One of the most noted of contemporary French writers, Roubaud is a member of Oulipo and a professor of mathematics at the -University of Paris.

The Great Fire of London: A Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations

Author: Jacques Roubaud, Dominic Di Bernardi

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Roubaud's "autobiography of thought" was prompted by the death of his wife, and contains a story followed by two sets of digressions in which he fuses grief with joy, love with destruction, and medieval quest literature with his own literary games. The great London fire of 1666 becomes the emblem of his own quest for the truth of his history.

Ciel Et Terre Et Ciel Et Terre, Et Ciel: John Constable

Author: Jacques Roubaud

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The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis

Author: Jacques Roubaud, Rosmarie Waldrop

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A meditation on grief and writing, this collection of prose and poetry elaborates on themes explored in Roubaud's "Some Thing Black", which "The Times Literary Supplement" called "a harrowing book ..an elegy for our time." As in the earlier collection, Roubaud grapples with the grief he continues to feel at the untimely death of his young wife. In the first two parts, he uses the possible existence of many worlds as a means by which to transcend the trauma of this unbearable loss. In the third section, Roubaud uses a mathematically precise form to explore the idea of form itself. These poems explore the limitations of poetry itself, which can only clarify the exactness of his grief, not assuage it.