by Jacques Roubaud Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop Original title: La pluralité des mondes de Lewis
This collection of prose and poetry elaborates on themes explored in Roubaud's Some Thing Black, which the Times Literary Supplement
called "a harrowing book . . . an elegy for our time." As in t
he earlier collection, Roubaud grapples with the grief he continues to feel at (more...)
by Jacques Roubaud Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop Original title: Quelque chose noir
In 1983 Jacques Roubaud's wife Alix Cleo died at the age of 31 of a pulmonary embolism. The grief-stricken author responded with one brief poem ("Nothing"), then fell
silent for thirty months. In subsequent years, Roubaud—poet, novelist, mathematician—composed a series of prose po (more...)
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