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Hortense in Exile
Häftad, 2000
146 kr
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-- First paperback edition.-- Hortense is in trouble again. Set to marry the Premier Prince Presumptive, our heroine finds herself caught in the middle of the plot of Hamlet, playing the unfortunate role of Ophelia. Can she escape in time? Brimming with brilliant wordplay, mathematical equations, …
Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart
Häftad, 2006
204 kr
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Composed of 150 poems, with a title taken from Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, and partly a response to the poetry of Raymond Queneau, this collection explores Jacques Roubaud’s many poetic modes. He skips from the strict form of the sonnet to the freedom of prose poetry without abandoning …
Mathematics:
Häftad, 2012
204 kr
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Longtime Oulipo member Jacques Roubaud's homage to one of the great passions of his life: mathematics...
Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go
Av Pierre Lusson, Jacques Roubaud m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
167 kr
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An introduction to the ancient Japanese strategy game of Go by Oulipo members Pierre Lusson, Georges Perec and Jacques RoubaudWritten by a mathematician, a poet and a mathematician-poet, this 1969 guide to the ancient Japanese game of Go was not only the first such guide to be published in France …
Någonting svart
Häftad, 2008
221 kr
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Jacques Roubaud, född 1932, är poet och matematiker, prosaist och pjäsförfattarem essäist och minnesteoretiker, poesihistoriker och ordförande för Oulipo. Sedan debuten 1967 med den hårt strukturerade sonettsamlingen Epsilon har han publicerat ett femtiotal böcker, som gör honom till en av …
Princess Hoppy, Or, the Tale of Labrador
Or, the Tale of Labrador
Häftad, 1993
133 kr
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A postmodern fairy tale might best describe Jacques Roubaud’s delightful book The Princess Hoppy or, The Tale of Labrador. How else to describe a novel that reads like an Arthurian romance as rewritten by Lewis Carroll, with enough math puzzles to keep the game reader busy with a calculator for …
Some Thing Black
Häftad, 1999
159 kr
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Written in the years following the sudden death of Roubaud's wife, Some Thing Black is a profound and moving transcription of loss, mourning, grief, and the attempts to face honestly and live with the consequences of death, the ever-present not-there-ness of the person who was/is loved.
Hortense is Abducted
Av Jacques Roubaud, Dominic Di Bernardi
Häftad, 2000
159 kr
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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 …
Great Fire of London
A Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations
Häftad, 2016
185 kr
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Part novel, part autobiography, The Great Fire of London is one of the great literary undertakings of our time. Both exasperating and moving, cherished by its readers, it has its origins in the author's attempt to come to terms with the death of his young wife Alix, whose presence both haunts and …
Loop
Häftad, 2009
197 kr
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Kalniete's book is a moving and eloquent testimony to her family and to the Latvian nation--to their shared fate during more than fifty years of occupation. It is an indictment of the inhuman repression of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Above all, it is the story of human survival, and it …
