Hortense is Abducted
by Jacques Roubaud, Dominic Di Bernardi
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Author: Dominic Di Bernardi, Jacques RoubaudEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-11
ISBN: 1564782565
Number of pages: 229
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
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Book Review: i love jacques roubaud
Summary: 5 Stars
i received "Some Thing Black" by Roubaud for my birthday a couple of years ago from my best friend who decided that this book of poems looked like something i would like because of the minimalist cover design...needless to say, i loved it and decided to buy more by jacques roubaud...i started with this book "Hortense Is Abducted" and found it to be a drastic emotional change from "Some Thing Black." Both books are so well done. "Something..." is distinctly sad and enables the reader to explore through Roubaud's words how the death of one whom one is so close to can disrupt our sense of the world. "Hortense.."; however, is extremely witty. While reading it, I begin to laugh randomly, causing alarm to my mom who wonders what I am doing in my room that is so ridiculous. Roubaud certainly has a style all of his own; he treats the reader as a personal aquintance and makes comments on the side that are truly entertaining. I do not believe I have ever been more entertained by an author, nor have i ever felt as close to one after finishing his book. I believe if I were walking down the street and ran into Roubaud that it would feel like running into a good friend who i share many inside jokes with. His ability to make the reader feel this way is a major accomplishment that i have never witnessed any other author be able to do. I think, because of his writing, I have fallen for Jacques Roubaud.
Summary of 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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