Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart: One Hundred Fifty Poems (1991-1998) (French Literature Series) - Softcover

Roubaud, Jacques

 
9781564783837: Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart: One Hundred Fifty Poems (1991-1998) (French Literature Series)

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Composed of 150 poems, with a title taken from Charles Baudelaires Les Fleurs du Mal, and partly a response to the poetry of Raymond Queneau, this collection explores Jacques Roubauds many poetic modes. He 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 Roubauds best recent work, The Form of a City describes not only Paris, but also its people, its writers (and those of the Oulipo in particular), its monumental past, and its unsteady response to change.

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Jacques Roubaud, born in 1932, has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Paris X Nanterre. He is one of the most accomplished members of the Oulipo, the workshop for experimental literature founded by Raymond Queneau and Francois Le Lionnais. He is the author of numerous books of prose, theatre and poetry.

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