Hortense Is Abducted
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Hortense Is Abducted
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Author : Jacques Roubaud
language : en
Publisher: Elmwood Park, IL, USA : Dalkey Archive Press
Release Date : 1989
Hortense Is Abducted written by Jacques Roubaud and has been published by Elmwood Park, IL, USA : Dalkey Archive Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Fiction categories.
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.
Hortense In Exile
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Author : Jacques Roubaud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Hortense In Exile written by Jacques Roubaud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.
-- First paperback edition.-- Hortense is in trouble again. Set to marry the Premier Prince Presumptive, our heroine finds herself caught in the middle of the plot of Hamlet, playing the unfortunate role of Ophelia. Can she escape in time? Brimming with brilliant wordplay, mathematical equations, literary allusions, and cats, Hortense in Exile continues the Hortense series in grand style.-- Jacques Roubaud is president of the l'Association Georges Perec, a society dedicated to honoring the work of his fellow Oulipian.-- First published in the U.S. by Dalkey Archive (1992). Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Truth About Marie
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Author : Jean-Philippe Toussaint
language : en
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Release Date : 2011-09-06
The Truth About Marie written by Jean-Philippe Toussaint and has been published by Dalkey Archive Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-06 with Fiction categories.
Moving through a variety of locales and adventures, The Truth about Marie revisits the unnamed narrator of Toussaint’s acclaimed Running Away, reporting on his now disintegrated relationship with the titular Marie—the story switching deftly between first- and third-person as the narrator continues to drift through life, and Marie does her best to get on with hers. Like all of Toussaint’s novels, The Truth about Marie’s plot matters far less than its pace and tempo, its chain of images, its sequence of events. From pouring rain in Paris to blazing fires on the island of Elba, from moments of intense action to perfectly paced lulls, The Truth about Marie relies on a series of contrasts to tell a beguiling, and finally touching, story of intimacy forever being regained and lost.
Many Subtle Channels
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Author : Daniel Levin Becker
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-08
Many Subtle Channels written by Daniel Levin Becker and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-08 with History categories.
Main description: What sort of society could bind together Jacques Roubaud, Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Queneau-and Daniel Levin Becker, a young American obsessed with language play? Only the Oulipo, the Paris-based experimental collective founded in 1960 and fated to become one of literature's quirkiest movements. An international organization of writers, artists, and scientists who embrace formal and procedural constraints to achieve literature's possibilities, the Oulipo (the French acronym stands for 0workshop for potential literature0) is perhaps best known as the cradle of Georges Perec's novel A Void, which does not contain the letter e. Drawn to the Oulipo's mystique, Levin Becker secured a Fulbright grant to study the organization and traveled to Paris. He was eventually offered membership, becoming only the second American to be admitted to the group. From the perspective of a young initiate, the Oulipians and their projects are at once bizarre and utterly compelling. Levin Becker's love for games, puzzles, and language play is infectious, calling to mind Elif Batuman's delight in Russian literature in The Possessed. In recent years, the Oulipo has inspired the creation of numerous other collectives: the OuMuPo (a collective of DJs), the OuMaPo (marionette players), the OuBaPo (comic strip artists), the OuFlarfPo (poets who generate poetry with the aid of search engines), and a menagerie of other Ou-X-Pos (workshops for potential something). Levin Becker discusses these and other intriguing developments in this history and personal appreciation of an iconic-and iconoclastic-group.
Sleepwalker
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Author : John Toomey
language : en
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Release Date : 2010
Sleepwalker written by John Toomey and has been published by Dalkey Archive Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
Tells the story of privileged, handsome, and totally lost Stuart Byrne, who finds himself trying to survive an emotional crisis of emptiness and lack of purpose by creating a life of excess and promiscuity to fill the void.
A Nest Of Ninnies
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Author : John Ashbery
language : en
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Release Date : 2008
A Nest Of Ninnies written by John Ashbery and has been published by Dalkey Archive Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
The Tosti sisters of Paris, France, have come to the small, upstate New York village of Kelton for a change of pace. But when the pair enters the lives of Alice, an unfulfilled cellist, her brother Marshall, and Fabia and Victor, another sister and brother who are as bumbling as they are overindulged, it is certain that Kelton will never again be the same unassuming place.
At Least We Can Apologize
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Author : Lee Ki-ho
language : en
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Release Date : 2013-09-26
At Least We Can Apologize written by Lee Ki-ho and has been published by Deep Vellum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with Fiction categories.
This story focuses on an agency whose only purpose is to offer apologies—for a fee—on behalf of its clients. This seemingly insignificant service leads us into an examination of sin, guilt, and the often irrational demands of society. A kaleidoscope of minor nuisances and major grievances, this novel heralds a new comic voice in Korean letters.
The Distant Sound
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Author : Gert Jonke
language : en
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Release Date : 2010
The Distant Sound written by Gert Jonke and has been published by Dalkey Archive Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
Told that he recently attempted suicide, a man awakens in an insane asylum with no memory of his actions, or even of his own name...
My Son S Girlfriend
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Author : Jung Mi Kyung
language : en
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Release Date : 2013-09-26
My Son S Girlfriend written by Jung Mi Kyung and has been published by Deep Vellum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with Fiction categories.
At once an ironic portrayal of contemporary Korea and an intimate exploration of heartache, alienation, and nostalgia, this collection of seven short stories has earned the author widespread critical acclaim. With empathy and an overarching melancholy that is at times tinged with sarcasm but always deeply meaningful, Jung explores the ambition and chaos of urban life, the lives of the lost and damaged souls it creates, and the subtle shades of love found between them.
Am I A Redundant Human Being
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Author : Mela Hartwig
language : en
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Release Date : 2010
Am I A Redundant Human Being written by Mela Hartwig and has been published by Dalkey Archive Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
Aloisia Schmidt is an ordinary secretary with a burning question: am I a redundant human being? She's neither pretty nor ugly (though she wishes she were hideous: at least that would be something), has no imagination, and is forced to live vicariously through "borrowed" fantasy--fantasy, that is, borrowed from books, plays, even other people's lives. She loves to hate herself, and loves for other people to hate her too. In one final, guilt-ridden, masturbatory, self-obsessed confession, Aloisia indulges her masochistic tendencies to the fullest, putting her entire life on trial, and trying, through telling her story (a story, she assures us, that's "so laughably mundane" it's really no story at all), to transform an ordinary life into something extraordinary.