{"product_id":"hortense-is-abducted-z16","title":"Jacques Roubaud: Hortense is Abducted [2000] paperback","description":"-- First paperback edition.\u003cbr\u003e-- 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.\u003cbr\u003e-- 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.\u003cbr\u003e-- First published in the U.S. by Dalkey Archive (1989).","brand":"Roubaud, Jacques \u0026 Di Bernardi, Dominic","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":51412769898835,"sku":"XG81564782564","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":42043615969465,"sku":"9781564782564","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/roubaud-jacques-di-bernardi-dominic-jacques-roubaud-hortense-is-abducted-2000-paperback-1178418334.jpg?v=1752685293","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/hortense-is-abducted-z16","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}