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Hortense is Abducted (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Hortense is Abducted-- 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...
Full description- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Published: 01 November 2000
- Format: Paperback 229 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Myth & Legend Told As Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781564782564 ISBN 10: 1564782565
- Sales rank: 582,638
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Full description for Hortense is Abducted
-- 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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