Jacques Roubaud
Jacques Roubaud was born in 1932 in Caluire-et-Cuire, France. He has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Paris X and is one of the most accomplished members of the Oulipo (the Workshop for Potential Literature). He is the author of numerous books of prose, theater, and poetry, including Some Thing Black; The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart; The Great Fire of London, and Hortense in Exile. Jacques Roubaud will be reading along with many of his fellow Oulipans on April 1st at the New School and on April 3rd at the Pierogi Gallery.
The Josephus Problem
By Jacques RoubaudThe battle had drawn to a close. For the defenders, the battle was lost. The battle had been won by the assailants. After fifty-three days of siege, the fortress Jotapata, which had been built by Joshua in Galilee to the north of Sepphoris, had fallen at the hands of the Romans because of a deserter’s betrayal.
Excerpt: “About”
By Jacques RoubaudIt has long been known that poets don’t know what they’re saying. They saying one thing then they say the opposite.
An Excerpt from Jacques Roubaud’s forthcoming novel, The Loop
By Jacques RoubaudTranslated from the French by Jeff Fort (Dalkey Archive Press)
