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The Great Fire of London:

(a Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations)
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DALKEY ARCHIVE Press, Feb 28, 2006 - Fiction - 328 pages
Part novel and part autobiography, The Great Fire of London is one of the great literary undertakings of the last fifty years. At various times exasperating, daunting, moving, dazzling, and challenging, it has its origins in Jacques Roubaud's attempt to come to terms with the death of his young wife Alix, whose presence both haunts and gives meaning to every page. Having failed to write his intended novel ("The Great Fire of London"), instead he creates a book that is about that failure, but in the process opens up the world of the creative process, which is at once an attempt to bring order to his ravaged personal life and to construct an intricate literary project that functions according to strict rules, one of them being the palindrome.

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Review: The Great Fire of London

User Review  - Nate D - Goodreads

The howling absences of the pre-dawn, traced in (skirted by?) gentle modest (yet sharp) self-reflections on memory, images, and the ideal croissant. In the first section of this potential novel (in ... Read full review

Review: The Great Fire of London: A Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations

User Review  - Jonfaith - Goodreads

I will forever cherish Roubaud's idea of drab insularity as to English literature, but other than his asides on Boston, the British Museum and what constitutes a proper croissant, I'm not sure what ... Read full review

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About the author (2006)

Jacques Roubaud, born in 1932, has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Paris X Nanterre and is one of the most accomplished members of the Oulipo, the workshop for experimental literature founded by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. He is the author of numerous books of prose, theatre, and poetry. Most notably, Dalkey Archive Press publishes two of his Hortense novels Hortense Is Abducted and Hortense in Exile his poetry collections Some Thing Black and Plurality of Worlds of Lewis, and his novel The Princess Hoppy, or The Tale of Labrador.

In addition to several of Jacques Roubaud s books, Dominic Di Bernardi has translated works by Louis-Ferdinand C line, Muriel Cerf, Claude Ollier, and Patrick Grainville, among others.

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TitleThe Great Fire of London: (a Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations)
French literature series
AuthorJacques Roubaud
Translated byDominic Di Bernardi
ContributorDominic Di Bernardi
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherDALKEY ARCHIVE Press, 2006
ISBN1564783960, 9781564783967
Length328 pages
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