Princess Hoppy, Or, the Tale of Labrador: Or, the Tale of Labrador - Tapa blanda

Roubaud, Jacques

 
9781564780324: Princess Hoppy, Or, the Tale of Labrador: Or, the Tale of Labrador
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ISBN 10: 1564780325 ISBN 13: 9781564780324
Editorial: Dalkey Archive Press, 1993

Sinopsis

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 reader busy with a calculator for months? The tale concerns a princess, her faithful dog (who happens to be a wiz at math), four royal uncles always plotting, four royal aunts always potting, a lovesick hedgehog named Bartleby, two camels named North Dakota and South Dakota, four ducks who double as boats (thus called doats), and an amphibious blue whale named Barbara―to name only a few. (Even the Sun has a speaking role.) There are dramatic abductions, daring rescues, passages in hitherto untranscribed languages (Dog, Grasshopper, Duck), tales of unrequited love, allegorical interludes, poems, a playlet, and much more. (But no suspenders, the author promises.) Finally, there are 79 questions for readers of the novel, to see how closely they’ve been paying attention―for ultimately The Princess Hoppy is a giddy inquiry into how we read literary works. It is both an old-fashioned tale and an ultramodern hypertext, the oldest and the latest thing in fiction.

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Acerca del autor

Jacques Roubaud, born in 1932, has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Paris X Nanterre. He is one of the most accomplished members of the Oulipo, the workshop for experimental literature founded by Raymond Queneau and Francois Le Lionnais. He is the author of numerous books of prose, theatre and poetry.

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Editorial
Dalkey Archive Press
Año de publicación
1993
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1564780325
ISBN 13 
9781564780324
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
132
Contacto del fabricante
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