Jacques Roubaud, open equation

Jacques Roubaud, who passed away last December, leaves behind an open body of work, because whether in poetry, where he followed an untimely and original path, or in prose, where he took his place as an exceptional "finder" with the Great Fire of London cycle, the writer addressed all forms of expression in literature. Over time, he became a major but always discreet figure in literature, merging into a single smiling and meditative figure a hermit in a cap, a pedestrian in love with cities, a mathematician, a poet and, with his friends Raymond Queneau and Georges Perec, a first-rate Oulipian. All his readers thus have their own personal "Jacques Roubaud," but no one will have exactly the same one , nor will they really be able to have read everything, which remains a consolation. Because if Roubaud is today "definitively excused" - as is said at OuLiPo meetings - the time has come for the editions of texts, both published and unpublished, like that of studies and tributes.

Poetics, studies brings together several contributions