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Our Beautiful Heroine

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Overlook Press, 1987 - Fiction - 207 pages
Investigating incidents of vandalism, Chief Inspector Blognard believes that the theft of her shoes may implicate Hortense

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Review: Our Beautiful Heroine (Hortense #1)

User Review  - Nate D - Goodreads

Oozes wit and charm. Though essentially frivolous, the meta-playfulness of the detective story and its exposed workings (Geoff's picture of the Pompidou Center, nearly relevant here as for The Great ... Read full review

Review: Our Beautiful Heroine (Hortense #1)

User Review  - Lenny - Goodreads

From Ch. 10 on navigating the obstacles set up to prevent readers getting their desired books from the library stacks - "...if, for example Hortense wished to read Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau ... Read full review

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Contents

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Section 2
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Section 3
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Copyright

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Roubaud’s witty "Hortense series" (La Belle Hortense, 1985, translated as Our Beautiful Heroine; L’Enlèvement d’Hortense, 1987, translated as Hortense Is ...
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Our Beautiful Heroine. Author(s): Roubaud, Jacques. ISBN10: 0879512903. ISBN13: 9780879512903. Cover: Hardcover. Copyright: 10/01/1987 ...
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About the author (1987)

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.

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