"Audin plays with codes, numbers and dates to create a fascinating and unsettling story."--_Le Temps_ This debut novel by mathematician and Oulipo member Michele Audin retraces the lives of French mathematicians over several generations through World Wars I and II. The narrative oscillates stylisti
One Hundred Twenty-One Days
✍ Scribed by Audin, Michèle
- Book ID
- 108876349
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781941920336
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✦ Synopsis
"Audin plays with codes, numbers and dates to create a fascinating and unsettling story."—Le Temps
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.
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