When I lived in Saarbrücken and worked at the University of the Saarland from 1993 to 1995, I had the opportunity to attend a lecture and reading by the poet, novelist, and mathematician Jacques Roubaud. As a founding member of Oulipo, the Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, his work explores literary constraints of all kinds, from traditional approaches like lipograms to approaches invented for individual works. Along with his poetry and fiction, Roubaud also wrote among other works an excellent 1978 study of the history of meter in French verse, "La Vieillesse d'Alexandre: essai sur quelques états récents du vers français". Jacques Roubaud died yesterday, 5 December 2024, on his 92nd birthday. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 6 December 2024)
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