Plurality of Worlds of Lewis

Roubaud, Jacques

ISBN 10: 1564780694 / ISBN 13: 9781564780690

Editore: Deep Vellum Publishing, 1995

Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Codice articolo 10462445-6

Riassunto:

This collection of prose and poetry elaborates on themes explored in Roubaud'sSome 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 parts 1 and 2, he uses the possible existence of many worlds as a means by which to transcend the trauma of this unbearable loss. (David Lewis's bookOn the Plurality of Worlds provided the inspiration and title for Roubaud's book.) These poems also rage against the limitations of poetry itself, which can only clarify the exactness of his grief, not assuage it. In part 3, Roubaud uses a mathematically precise form to explore the idea of form.

Informazioni sull?autore:

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'sThe 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 inThe Great Fire of London, considered the pinnacle of his prose.

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Titolo: Plurality of Worlds of Lewis
Casa editrice: Deep Vellum Publishing
Data di pubblicazione: 1995
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good