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Hortense Is Abducted

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Dalkey Archive Press, 1989 - Fiction - 229 pages
-- First paperback edition.-- In this madcap metafictional mystery a 22-year-old philosophy student (Hortense) is kidnapped and a dog is murdered -- the imaginary country of Poldevia is somehow involved. Arranged in the form of a sestina (replete with authorial asides and plenty of puns, jokes and wordplay), this is the second installment in Roubaud's popular and widely acclaimed "Hortense" series.-- A professor of mathematics at the University of Paris X Nanterre and a long time member of Oulipo, the Workshop for Potential Literature, Jacques Roubaud is the author of several novels and works of poetry.-- First published in the U.S. by Dalkey Archive (1989).
  

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From Jacques the Fatalist to Jacques Roubaud: OuLiPo's lesser-known practitioner and most famous surviving member, excluding Harry Mathews, who isn't really French anyway. For some reason, Dalkey ... Read full review

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Roubaud followed up his initial Hortense release with this farce (published here in 1989) in which the police try to foil the plot to kidnap the title character. LJ's reviewer commented that "those ... Read full review

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Contents

The ThirtyThree Strokes of Midnight
3
Quay of EntryintotheMatter
11
The Scene of the Crime M
17
Hortense
23
The Geometry Lesson
30
Still the Geometry Lesson
36
The Poldevian Connection
43
Hotello and Laurie
45
Nasty Little Bugs in the Programs
107
One of the Authors Secrets
114
Escape
121
The ThirtyNine Steps 223
123
Balbastres Funeral
129
A Documentary Chapter
134
Le Marche des Bebes Orange
137
Hotello Introduces Carlotta to Gormanskoi
144

The Poldevian Chapel
50
I Am Not Madame Bovary Iwith an unpublished Correspondence between the Author and the Publisher
57
Inspector Sheralockiszyku Holamesidjudjy
64
Reflections on Marriage
70
Preparation for an Introduction toBeeranalysis
75
Passion
81
Introduction to Beeranalysis
83
Birth of a Multinational
89
Love at First Sight in a Suburban Train
95
The Crossexamination of the Bells
101
Hortense Chooses Adventure
149
The Costume Ball 257
157
Madame Yvonne Infinity Sinouls
168
Balbastres Secret
174
The DewPon DewVal Concert
180
Blognard
193
I The Captive II Deliverance
202
Stew
211
A Farewell Ceremony
225
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About the author (1989)

Jacques Roubaud, born in 1932, has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Paris X Nanterre. He is one of the most accomplished members of the Oulipo, the workshop for experimental literature founded by Raymond Queneau and Francois Le Lionnais. He is the author of numerous books of prose, theatre and poetry.

In addition to several of Jacques Roubaud s books, Dominic Di Bernardi has translated works by Louis-Ferdinand C line, Muriel Cerf, Claude Ollier, and Patrick Grainville, among others.

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