Mathematics: 20th Century Before the Breakup

Before the Breakup

and Beckett in its representa­tion of what language can do when it turns against itself and its speaker

and many others in a hilarious parody of the old Western

The New York Times Book Review

On all counts it deserves the three stars from Orion’s belt

Mathematics: 20th Century Before the BreakupLongtime Oulipo member Jacques Roubaud's homage to one of the great passions of his life: mathematics . . . [continued] The third "branch" of Jacques Roubaud's epic, Proustian Great Fire of London, Mathematics: is also an excellent entrance into the series. Adopting math as a career relatively late in his studies, Roubaud here narrates his difficulties both personal and pedagogical, while also investigating the role of mathematics in his life as a