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ISBN: 1564785548 (ISBN13: 9781564785541)
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Alix's Journal Paperback | Pages: 120 pages
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Title:Alix's Journal
Author:Alix Cléo Roubaud
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 120 pages
Published:June 8th 2010 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published 1984)
Categories:Diary. Journal. Nonfiction. Art. Photography

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Alix’s Journal is a collection of private notebooks kept by Canadian photographer Alix Cleo Roubaud during the last four years of her life, before her death at the age of 31. Written, in a sense, for her husband—acclaimed novelist, poet, and mathematician Jacques Roubaud—Alix’s Journal straddles the gap between French and English, poetry and prose, the tragic and the comic, the profound and the quotidian. Alix’s idiosyncratic and revealing work gives us access to a singular consciousness, one that was profoundly influential on her husband’s subsequent works, in style as well as content. The notebooks center on themes of love, marriage, photography, addiction, and death, and include examples of Alix’s photographic work, whose strangeness and poignancy is enhanced by its juxtaposition with her plans for and interpretations of it.



From Alix’s Journal:

You left yesterday morning, and last night I got drunk by nine. I didn’t walk straight on the rue des Francs-Bourgeois, where I went to post my first letter. At ten o’clock I collapsed dead drunk. I woke at three and read what Nigel Nicholson wrote his parents, and read Jacques Roubaud in Change (a poem about water similar to Hockney’s distortions). I asked myself why I abuse myself in this manner when I am loved and really must keep alive; why do I get drunk on an empty stomach? why do I drug myself with sleeping pills? why do I smoke?

     looking after oneself.


I had things to do today.


To fall asleep like everyone else, etc., to lead a simple regular life. To fall asleep like
everyone else, that is what I want.

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---Alix's reading -- an incomplete list, both because I did not note everything, and because something she didn't give enough information for me to figure out what the book was. Walter Benjamin EinbahnstrasseGershom ScholemLe Bavard Italo Calvino [at least, she went drinking with him; doesn't say if she read him]The Fine Summer by Pavese El bello veranoL'age De L'eloquence: Rhetorique Et "Res Literaria" De La Renaissance Au Seuil De L'epoque ClassiqueChildren of ClayThe Death of VirgilLife: A

Alix's reading -- an incomplete list, both because I did not note everything, and because something she didn't give enough information for me to figure out what the book was. Walter Benjamin EinbahnstrasseGershom ScholemLe Bavard Italo Calvino [at least, she went drinking with him; doesn't say if she read him]The Fine Summer by Pavese El bello veranoL'age De L'eloquence: Rhetorique Et "Res Literaria" De La Renaissance Au Seuil De L'epoque ClassiqueChildren of ClayThe Death of VirgilLife: A

My rereading of this book has turned out to be disappointing. This time around I do not feel Alix was such a brilliantly gifted writer and photographer. She certainly did have an extremely acute mind and a stunning body to go with it. It is not her writing but her story that interests me. She liked to photograph herself nude in a sparse room and then do magic in her darkroom. She often thought of killing herself. She was seriously asthmatic since childhood. She died of a pulmonary embolism at