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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).

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 229
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781564782564
  • Genres
  • france, fiction
  • Release date
  • 2000