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I've yet to read Roubaud. What makes it heavy going?

Early on there's some discussion of metre in medieval French poetry although that doesn't go on for long. It's the current chapter where he's trying to make mathematical type assertions about his decision to embark on his "project" (or Project or "Project") and its relationship to this (imaginary?) novel "The Great Fire of London". I'm mostly skimming it to be honest. Elsewhere though he muses amusingly on (at various points) croissants, walking, swimming and reading