Jacques Roubaud
French author
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Jacques Roubaud was a French author associated with OuLiPo, an experimental literary group focused on potential literature. OuLiPo writers embraced rigorous formal constraints, often mathematical, as a means to unlock artistic creativity. Roubaud's own poetry, such as Trente et un au cube, drew inspiration from Japanese literature, aiming for structured yet rhetorically unburdened work. He also explored the "crisis of verse" in French versification in his study La Vieillesse d’Alexandre.1
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