Jacques Roubaud, Parisian pedestrian - urban memory samples

Abstract

Jacques Roubaud has been criss-crossing the snail-shaped Parisian labyrinth for over fifty years. The memorable prose of Le Grand Incendie de Londres, the poems of La Forme d’une ville change plus vite, hélas, que le cœur des humains... sing of a capital that is by turns reviled and acclimatized, a plural Paris that inspires the challenge of a poetic art that proves movement by walking, without sacrificing rhythm. Following the footsteps of Baudelaire, Apollinaire, Queneau and many others, Roubaud runs and runs through the streets of Paris, in search of himself, planning as many routes of memory as poetic journeys in the capital.