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Jacques Roubaud

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by Jacques Roubaud
Translated by Bernard Hoepffner
Original title: La Princesse Hoppy

A postmodern fairy tale might best describe Jacques Roubaud's delightful book The Princess Hoppy, or The Tale of Labrador . How else to describe a novel that reads like an Arthurian romance as rewritten by Lewis Carroll, with enough math puzzles to keep the game rea der busy with a (more...)

Plurality of Worlds of Lewis [Buy Direct]

by Jacques Roubaud
Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
Original title: La pluralité des mondes de Lewis

This collection of prose and poetry elaborates on themes explored in Roubaud's Some Thing Black, which the Times Literary Supplement called "a harrowing book . . . an elegy for our time." As in t he earlier collection, Roubaud grapples with the grief he continues to feel at (more...)

Hortense Is Abducted [Buy Direct]

by Jacques Roubaud
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Enlèvement d'Hortense

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 Arap de are on the scene, as is our narrator, Jacques Roubaud. While they track down the Poldevian criminal, (more...)

Hortense in Exile [Buy Direct]

by Jacques Roubaud
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Exil d'Hortense

Set to marry Gormansko, the Premier Prince Presumptive, our beautiful heroine Hortense has been exiled to Queneau'stown, where she finds herself in a real-life production of Hamlet —or is it Hatmel, the original Poldevian tal e scandalously plagiarized by that Englishma (more...)

Great Fire of London [Buy Direct]

by Jacques Roubaud
Translated by Dominic DiBernardi
Original title: Grand incendie de Londres

"I've devoted myself to the enterprise of destroying my memory. . . . I set fire to it, and with its debris I charcoal-scrawl the paper." Part novel and part autobiography, The Great Fire of London is one of the grea t literary undertakings of the last fifty years. At various (more...)

Some Thing Black [Buy Direct]

by Jacques Roubaud
Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
Original title: Quelque chose noir

In 1983 Jacques Roubaud's wife Alix Cleo died at the age of 31 of a pulmonary embolism. The grief-stricken author responded with one brief poem ("Nothing"), then fell silent for thirty months. In subsequent years, Roubaud—poet, novelist, mathematician—composed a series of prose po (more...)

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