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A review by cielllo
Quelque Chose Noir by Jacques Roubaud
5.0
French Wittgensteinian poetry? on mourning? longing? death? do u need more?
the nature of mourning is especially well reconstructed through obsessive re-iterations of the same images and lines; a hyper-fixation on the departed which is interrupted by the appearances of the 'real' window/ room that the narrator stares through.
language philosophy contemplations & silence work well to illustrate the absence & void the departed left. abruptness of silences between paragraphs as well as breaking up sentences create a sentiment of excruciating pain & difficulty underlying the utterances; while uninterrupted sequences express nostalgia structurally quite beautiful.
about 40 years late, but cher jacques roubaud, my most sincere condolences.
the nature of mourning is especially well reconstructed through obsessive re-iterations of the same images and lines; a hyper-fixation on the departed which is interrupted by the appearances of the 'real' window/ room that the narrator stares through.
language philosophy contemplations & silence work well to illustrate the absence & void the departed left. abruptness of silences between paragraphs as well as breaking up sentences create a sentiment of excruciating pain & difficulty underlying the utterances; while uninterrupted sequences express nostalgia structurally quite beautiful.
about 40 years late, but cher jacques roubaud, my most sincere condolences.