Jacques Roubaud
Jacques Roubaud ( born December 5, 1932 in Caluire -et -Cuire in Lyon ) is a French writer, poet and mathematician. His work is characterized by the blending of poetry and prose, reality and fiction, literature and mathematics. Among his most famous works is the Hortense cycle. This consists of three novels, the first of which: The beautiful Hortense was published in 1985 in Paris.
- Jacques Roubaud 3.1 and the numbers
- 3.2 OuLiPo
Life
Childhood
Jacques Roubaud - son of the teacher Suzanne Molino and teacher Lucien Roubaud - spent his childhood first in Carcassonne, where he attended a special instruction for Literature. He broke this off, however, and then moved to teaching mathematics. Early on, he became interested in poetry and the sonnet. At the age of twelve he wrote his first surrealist -inspired poems, which were published in 1945 under the title Poésies Juvéniles. His second collection of poetry Voyage du soir appeared in 1952.
After 1945
After the Second World War, studied Roubaud Mathematics at the Institute Henri Poincaré in Paris. Here he met Pierre Lusson and he attended courses by Choquet, Laurent Schwartz and Claude Chevalley, very impressed by him. On the recommendation of Raymond Queneau Roubaud came 1966, the group Oulipo ( Ouvroir de litérature potential) at. Together with Paul Braffort he founded the Atelier de Littérature Assistée par la Mathématique et les Ordinateurs ( ALAMO ). Among the many artists with whom Roubaud has collaborated include, inter alia, Georges Perec, Florence Delay, Paul Fournel, Michel Deguy and the composer François Sarhan .. As Professor Jacques Roubaud taught mathematics at the Université Paris X Nanterre and in the 90s formal poetics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Work
Jacques Roubaud was known for his novel published in 1985 in Paris The beautiful Hortense. It is the first of three novels that deal with the heroine Hortense, which is also the namesake for the other two novels: The Taking of Hortense and the exile of the beautiful Hortense. It involves detective novels. On the one hand it is about the mystery of the cat poldevischen Alexandre Vladimirovitch and the seduction of Hortense by the poldevischen Prince Morgan. On the other hand also to the investigation of the case of the " Secrets of household goods dealers".
Literature and Mathematics: OuLiPo
Jacques Roubaud and the numbers
Jacques Roubaud had as a child a great passion for numbers and mathematics. Numbers have a symbolic meaning for him, and he brings them with personal events in conjunction. One can even say that an analysis of the works Roubaud can only be one-sided and therefore incomplete without consideration of the mathematical character.
Jacques Roubaud is a specialist in poetry. For him, poetry and rhythm number, shape and formula. Poetry is articulated through meter, rhyme, verse form and often subtle combinatorics of sounds, letters, words. This is exactly what the troubadours had introduced into the "modern" languages of the West, that is precisely their heritage, such as that of Roubaud especially appreciated genre of the sonnet. But Jacques Roubaud is above all a prolific poet, a " poeta doctus ", the " liberal arts " with the late ancient and medieval tradition, the liberal arts trusts in which literary and mathematical culture still occupied a common home.
OuLiPo
Roubaud's passion for numbers and mathematics is clearly evident in many of his works. Because of his poetry band ε, poésie ( ε is the mathematical symbol for element of a set ) are members of the group OuLiPo attention to him. This is a loose association of writers scientists, especially mathematicians and artists to Raymond Queneau and Francois Le Lionnais whose playful combinatorial text production borrows from mathematical systems. They create so-called contraintes (shape constraints ), but not to limit the production of the text, but to the contrary, create new opportunities.
Roubaud is the inventor of several contraintes, such as the Baobab ( Baobab ) and the Haiku oulipien généralisé ( general oulipotischer Haiku ). With the help of contraintes Oulipo tried the random, ie the unexpected, off unknown in the production of a text or to leave as little as possible to chance. An example of a contraint would Fünfundfünfzigtausendfünfhundertfünfundfünfzig balls, which he tied to numbers that appear regularly in the text and culminate in the number that has the English translation given its title in his novel. He co-founded the magazine " Change" and co-wrote with Octavio Paz and others, 1971, the first European multilingual Renga poem. In addition, Roubaud translated Japanese and contemporary American poetry and books like Lewis Carroll 's The Hunting of the Snark.
Works
Life Jacques Roubaud is the subject of several of his works. For example:
- Autobiography, chapitre dix, poèmes avec des moments de repos en prose, Gallimard, 1977
- Impératif Catégorique, Seuil, 2008
In German language, published works (selection ) are:
- La Belle Hortense: The beautiful Hortense, German by Eugen Helmle, The Hague: Mouton 1989.
- Traité de la lumière: Treatise of Light, German Alexandre Métraux, Bremen: Bremen New Press, 1989
- L' Enlèvement d' Hortense: The abduction of the beautiful Hortense, German by Eugen Helmle, The Hague: Mouton 1991.
- L'Exil d' Hortense: The Exile of the beautiful Hortense, German by Eugen Helmle, Munich: DTV 1994
- La disposition numérologique you Rerum vulgarium fragmenta: The numerological arrangement of Rerum vulgarium fragmentary, German by Peter Geble, Berlin: Ed. Plasma, 1997
- Quelque chose noir: Something black, Berlin: printing house Galrev, 2000
- La forme d'une ville change plus vite, hélas, que le cœur of humains: State of places, Heidelberg: Wunderhorn, 2000
- La Dernière Balle perdue: Fünfundfünfzigtausendfünfhundertfünfundfünfzig balls, German by Elisabeth Edl, Munich: Hanser, 2003; Edition under the title The Lost last ball, Wagenbach, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-8031-1264-4
- Parc Sauvage, récit: The feral Park - narrative, translated by Tobias Scheffel, Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-8031-3227-7
Published only in French works (selection):
- Voyage du soir, Seghers, coll P. S., 1952.
- Renga ( en collaboration avec Octavio Pas, C. Tomlison, E. Sanguinetti ), poésie, Gallimard, 1971
- Grail Fiction, Gallimard, 1978
- La bibliothèque oulipienne, En collaboration avec Paul Fournel, 3 vol. , Seghers, 1987-1990
- Le Grand Incendie de Londres, avec récit incises et Bifurcations, Seuil, 1985-1987, 1989
- La Princesse Hoppy ou le Conte du Labrador, Hatier, 1990
- Grammar: récit, Seuil, 2000
- Graal théâtre, Gallimard, 1997
- Graal théâtre, Gallimard, 2005