ONE HUNDRED TWENTY ONE DAYS
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- Texas Deep Vellum 2014
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This debut novel by mathematician and Oulipo member Michèle Audin retraces the lives of French mathematicians over several generations through World Wars I and II. The narrative oscillates stylistically from chapter to chapter—at times a novel, fable, historical research, or a diary—locking and unlocking codes, culminating in a captivating, original reading experience.
Michèle Audin is the author of several works of mathematical theory and history and also published a work on her anticolonialist father's torture, disappearance, and execution by the French during the Battle of Algiers.
1. Childhood (1900s) 2. Dairy of Marguerite Janvier (1916-1939) 3. One Poly technician, Three Murders, Twenty Two Articles (1917-1939) 4. Strabourg 1939 (transcription of Interview with Pierre Meyer, November 2006) 5. Journal of Heinrich Kurz (Paris, 1942) 6. Form of City (1943-2005) 7. Trip to N. (Notes from the gray Notebook, 2005) 8. One Hundred Twenty One days 9. Numbers 10. Binder (Notes 2006-2010) 11. Form of a City (Paris - Strabourg, 2009-2013)