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Jacques Roubaud Princess Hoppy, Or, the Tale of Labrador (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Princess Hoppy, Or, the Tale of Labrador : Or, the Tale of Labrador
- Publication Name
- Princess Hoppy, Or, the Tale of Labrador
- Title
- Princess Hoppy, Or, the Tale of Labrador
- Subtitle
- Or, the Tale of Labrador
- Translator
- Bernard Hoepffner
- Contributor
- Bernard Hoepffner (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781564780324
- ISBN
- 9781564780324
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 14/10/1993
- Release Year
- 1993
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Item Weight
- 7.1 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Topic
- General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 132 Pages
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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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Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-10
1564780325
ISBN-13
9781564780324
eBay Product ID (ePID)
265233
Product Key Features
Book Title
Princess Hoppy, Or, the Tale of Labrador : Or, the Tale of Labrador
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
132 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
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"One of the strangest books that I have ever had the pleasure of reading completely and finding that I had not quite fully understood just what it is I was reading is Jacques Roubaud's The Princess Hoppy.... Roubaud takes advantage of language,... expectations of heroic fairy tales, and postmodern perspective to create a story rife with intrigue, suspense, and mathematical puzzles. The Princess Hoppy is an irreverent trip through out collective consciousness, with elements familiar to everyone, but with a bizarre twist, making us realize just how it is we go about reading stories. I have found the story to be educational... and simultaneously fabulously entertaining. This is one book that will be read many times and recommended as a positive and fun read." -- Texture #6, "Exhilarating.... [T]he chief pleasures of this book are its narrative inventiveness and vigorously related amusing parodies, excellently translated by Bernard Hoepffner. Mr. Roubaud is a vivid and charming writer who seems to smile as he makes esthetic and philosophical points about the autonomy of fiction and the illusory nature of destiny. He is, moreover, highly proficient at various forms of humor, from the silly to the sophisticated. When he does satirize the vanities of society, his touch is light and never meanspirited." -- New York Times Book Review
Lccn
93-018995
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Trade
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