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      Hortense is Abducted

      by Jacques Roubaud
      Published
      Nov 2000
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      Pages
      229
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      -- 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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      Nov 2000 Dalkey Archive Press ISBN13 9781564782564 ISBN10 1564782565
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      Jul 1989 Dalkey Archive Press ISBN13 9780916583385 ISBN10 0916583384
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