Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A sometimes mocking! sometimes poignant tribute to the City of Light. Zusammenfassung Comprised of 150 poems, with a title taken from Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal", this collection skips from the strict form of the sonnet to the freedom of prose poetry. It contains a variety of forms and tones that work together to describe Paris, its people, its writers, its monumental past, and its unsteady response to change.

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Roubaud
• Assisted by: Keith Waldrop (Translation), Rosemarie Waldrop (Translation), Rosmarie Waldrop (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2006
• EAN: 9781564783837
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-383-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: French Literature; French Literature
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama