The Loop Devastated by the death of his young wife, Alix, the author conceives a project that will allow him not only to continue writing, but to continue living - writing a book that leads him to confront his terrible loss as well as examine the lonely world in which he now seems, increasingly, to exist: that of Memory. The Loop finds Roubaud returning to his earliest recollections, as well as considering the nature of memory itself, and the process - both merciful and terrible - of forgetting. By turns playful and despairing, The Loop is a masterpiece of contemporary prose. |
Contents
Inverse Flower | 11 |
Davila Square | 138 |
Hôtel Lutetia | 159 |
from Chapter 1 | 199 |
from Chapter 2 | 231 |
from Chapter 3 | 255 |
from Chapter 4 | 291 |
from Chapter 5 | 298 |
from Chapter 6 | 312 |
The Monster of Strasbourg | 349 |
On Clouds | 396 |
Truphème Boulevard | 477 |
Descriptive Table of Contents | 517 |
| 545 | |
Common terms and phrases
Aude Aude River bedroom beginning bench beneath Bifurcation blue branch called Caluire Carcassonne chapter childhood clouds cold color dark door doubt École École Normale Supérieure eyes fact father fictive fig tree fire of London French garden Goodman's paradox grandfather grandmother green hand inter-branches Jacques Roubaud khâgne Laissac language later less light lived looking Loop lycée memory meter Minervois Molino mother never night novel nyanya one’s Oranjello Oulipo past path perhaps photographs piction pine poem poetry present Project prose Provençal Raymond Queneau remained remember road Rocambole Roubaud Rue d’Assas Saint-Félix side snow space speak spindle trees story street tion took Toulon turn vegetable Villegly vision walkway wall Wild Park window winter words writing