Research Catalog

Title

One hundred twenty-one days / Michèle Audin ; translated from the French by Christina Hills.

Author

Audin, Michèle

Publication

• Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2016.
• ©2016

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Hills, Christina

Description

175 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"This debut novel by renowned mathematician Michèle Audin--only the second book ever published in English by a female member of the prestigious and influential Oulipo--follows the lives of French mathematicians through the World Wars. Oscillating stylistically from chapter to chapter--at times a novel, fable, historical research, diary--One Hundred Twenty-One Days locks and unlocks historical codes as it unravels the tragic entanglement of politics and science, culminating in a wholly original and emotionally powerful reading experience."--Page [4] of cover.

Uniform Title

Cent vingt et un jours English

Alternative Title

• Cent vingt et un jours
• 121 days

Subject

• Mathematicians > France > Fiction
• World War, 1914-1918 > Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• Historical fiction.

Note

• "Originally published in French as Cent vingt et un jours in 2014" -- Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A childhood (1900s) -- Diary of Marguerite Janvier (1916-1917) -- One polytechnician, three murders, twenty-two articles (1917-1939) -- Strasbourg 1939 (transcription of an interview with Pierre Meyer, November 2006) -- Journal of Heinrich Kurz (Paris, 1942) -- The form of a city... (N., 1943-2005) -- Trip to N. (notes from the gray notebook, 2005) -- One hundred twenty-one days -- The numbers -- The binder (notes 2006-2010) -- The form of a city... (Paris, April 25, 2013) -- Supernumerary chapter (Pris-Strasbourg, 2009-2013).

ISBN

• 9781941920329
• 1941920322

OCLC

920018960

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library