Editing Jacques Roubaud (section)

==Life and career==
Jacques Roubaud taught mathematics at [[Paris Nanterre University|University of Paris X Nanterre]] and poetry at [[School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences|EHESS]]. A member of the [[Oulipo]] group, he has published poetry, plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into [[French language|French]], such as [[Lewis Carroll]]'s ''[[The Hunting of the Snark]]''. French poet and novelist [[Raymond Queneau]] had Roubaud's first book, a collection of mathematically structured sonnets, published by [[Éditions Gallimard]], and then invited Roubaud to join the Oulipo as the organization's first new member outside the founders.<ref name=Durand>Durand, Marcella. [http://bombsite.com/issues/108/articles/3304 "Jacques Roubaud"]. ''[[BOMB Magazine]]''. Summer 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2011.</ref>

Roubaud's fiction often suppresses the rigorous constraints of the Oulipo (while mentioning their suppression, thereby indicating that such constraints are indeed present), yet takes the Oulipian self-consciousness of the writing act to an extreme. This simultaneity both appears playfully, in his Hortense novels (''Our Beautiful Heroine'', ''Hortense Is Abducted'' and ''Hortense in Exile''), and with gravity and reflection in ''The Great Fire of London'', considered the pinnacle of his prose. ''The Great Fire of London'' (1989), ''The Loop'' (1993), and ''Mathematics'' (2012) are the first three volumes of a long, experimental, autobiographical work known as "the project" (or "the minimal project"), and the only volumes of "the project", at present, to have been translated into English. Seven volumes of "the project" have been completed and published in French. To compose ''The Loop'', Roubaud began with a childhood memory of a snowy night in [[Carcassonne]] and then wrote nightly, without returning to correct his writing from previous nights. Roubaud's goals in writing ''The Loop'' were to discover "My ''own'' memory, how does it work?" and to "destroy" his memories through writing them down.<ref name=Durand/>

Roubaud participated in readings and lectures at the European Graduate School (2007), the Salon du Livre de Paris (2008), and the "Dire Poesia" series at Palazzo Leoni Montanari in Venice (2011).<ref name="giornale">{{cite web | url=http://www.ilgiornaledivicenza.it/stories/Cultura_e_Spettacoli/241521__poesia_e_matematica_parenti_strette/ | title=Poesia e matematica, "parenti" strette | publisher=Il Giornale di Vicenza | date=6 April 2011 | access-date=6 April 2011 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724083632/http://www.ilgiornaledivicenza.it/stories/Cultura_e_Spettacoli/241521__poesia_e_matematica_parenti_strette/ | archive-date=24 July 2011 }}</ref><ref name="vincenza">{{cite web | url=http://www.comune.vicenza.it/albo/notizie.php/65219 | title=A Dire Poesia Jacques Roubaud e Piergiorgio Odifreddi: magico connubio tra matematica e poesia | publisher=Comune di Vicenza | date=5 April 2011 | access-date=6 April 2011 | archive-date=14 May 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514100147/http://www.comune.vicenza.it/albo/notizie.php/65219 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1980, he married [[Alix Cléo Roubaud]]; she died three years later.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bnf.fr/documents/dp_alix_cleo_roubaud.pdf |title=Quinze minutes la nuit au rythme de la respiration |date=4 April 2023 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr}}</ref> Jacques Roubaud died on 5 December 2024, his 92nd birthday.<ref name="g212">{{cite web | title=Jacques Roubaud, poète et mathématicien des mots, est mort | website=Le Monde.fr | date=5 December 2024 | url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/12/05/jacques-roubaud-poete-et-mathematicien-des-mots-est-mort_6431764_3382.html | language=fr | access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref>