Great Fire of London: A Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations

by Jacques Roubaud

Book Overview

"I've devoted myself to the enterprise of destroying my memory . . . I set fire to it, and with its debris I charcoal-scrawl the paper." Part novel and part autobiography, The Great Fire of London is one of the great literary undertakings of the last fifty years. At various times exasperating, daunting, moving, dazzling, and challenging, it has its origins in Jacques Roubaud's attempt to come to terms with the death of his young wife Alix, whose presence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916583767
• ISBN13: 9780916583767
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

hypertext novel - not for those of linear mind

hypertext novel - excellent text read and enjoy