Hortense is Abducted - Hardcover

Roubaud, Jacques

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0916583384 ISBN 13: 9780916583385

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 1989

Synopsis

The second installment in Roubaud’s popular and widely acclaimed “Hortense” series opens with a murder of a dog at the Church of Sainte-Gudule. Chief Inspector Blognard and his sidekick Arapède are on the scene, as is our narrator, Jacques Roubaud. While they track down the Poldevian criminal, teenage girls argue the relative merits of the boy bands Dew-Pon, Dew-Val, and Landau Valley, Père Sinouls tries to program a computer to take his place at the organ so that he can continue to practice Beeranalysis, and the clientele of the Gudule Bar debate the reality of Infinity.

Time is running out for the Inspector, however, as the murderer puts into action his plot to kidnap our heroine Hortense, a 22-year-old philosophy student whose buttocks are so beautiful their description has been banned from the printed page.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0916583384
• ISBN 13: 9780916583385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 229