Jacques
Roubaud [France]
1932
Already at the age of 12, Roubaud was
encourage by the noted writer Louis Aragon to publish a collection of poetry, Poésies Juvéniles (Youthful Poems). In 1952, his second collection, Voyage du soir (Evening Journey) was published.
Because of his hatred for exams, Rouboud
dropped out of his preparatory classes for the entrance exam for Écoles Normales Supérieures, yet today he is a professor
of poetry at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and a
professor of Mathematics at the University of Paris X.
Roubaud has published numerous books of
poetry and fiction. In his fiction, particularly, Roubaud takes the Oulipian
use of constraints to the extreme, particularly in his Hortense novels, La belle Hortense, L'exil d'Hortense, and
L'enlèvement d'Hortense, as well as
other works such as Le Grand Incendie de
Lonres (The Great Fire of London),
the latter an autobiographical-like work that embraces hypertext. Many of his
works of fiction have been translated into English, published by Dalkey Archive
Press.
Roubaud's poetry also includes highly
structured works such as rengas, sonnets, and sestinas.
His book of essays on poetry, Poésie,etcetera: ménage was published in
English by Green Integer as Poetry,
etcetera: Cleaning House. Roubaud also translated Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark in French.
He has been the recipient of several
prestigious literary prizes such as the Grand Prix National de la Poésie (National
Prize for Poetry) in 1990 and in 2008 the French Academy Grand prix de
littérature Paul-Morand (Paul-Morrand Prize). In 1999 Roubaud was awarded The America Award for his contribution to International Writing.
Poésies Juvéniles; Voyage du soir (Paris: P. Seghers, 1952); E (Paris: Gallimard, 1967); Mono no aware: Le
Sentiment des choses (1970); Renga
(1971); Trente et un au cube (Paris: Gallimard, 1973); Mezura
(1975); Autobiographie, chapitre dix (Paris: Gallimard, 1977); La Vieillesse
d'Alexandre: Essai sur quelques états récents du vers français (Paris
: F. Maspero 1978); Dors, précédé de Dire la poésie
(Paris: Gallimard, 1981); Les animaux de
tout le mond (Paris: Editions Ramsay, 1983); Quelque chose noir
(1986); La Plurité des mondes de Lewis (Paris: Gallimard, 1991); Poèmes choisis (Paris: Editions UNESCO,
1994); Monsieur Goodman rêve de chats (1994); La forme d'une ville
change plus vite, hélas, que le cœur des humains. Cent cinquante poèmes.
1991-1998 (Paris: Gallimard, 1999); Oeuvres
poétiques complètes (Paris: Gallimard/Le Promeneur, 2002); Churchill 40
et autres sonnets de voyage (Paris: Gallimard, 2004); Eros
mélancolique (co-written with Anne F. Garréta) (2009)
Something Black (trans. Rosmarie
Waldrop) (Elwood Park, Illinois:
Dalkey Archive Press, 1990); The Plurality
of Worlds of Lewis (trans. by Rosmarie Waldrop) (Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1995); The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas,
than the Human Heart: One Hundred Fifty Poems (1991-1998)(trans. by
Rosmarie Waldrop and Keith Waldrop) (Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press,
2006); Exchanges on Light (trans. by Eleni Sikélianòs)
(Iowa City: La Presse, 2009)
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