HORTENSE IN EXILE PA

-- 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).

Main Characters of the Drama

vii

Maps

viii

Part One: A Matter-of-Fact Introduction to This Heart-throbbing Tale of Adventure

Bathing with Hortense

3

(5)

Why? Where? When? How? With What? With Whom?

8

(4)

Following a Clue-strewn Course, Hortense Goes Christmas Shopping

12

(4)

At the Pony Shoe Cafe

16

(5)

The Foe

21

(6)

Poldevians and Poldadamians

27

(6)

Part Two: In Which a Twinship of Sorts is Established with a Very Old Book

Twins and Doubles

33

(5)

A Very Disappointing Visit

38

(3)

The RGBLP

41

(5)

The RGBLP (continued) and a Strange Apparition

46

(8)

The Letter to Laurie, Carlotta, and Ophelia

54

(5)

Meanwhile, Back in the City, Not Far from Sainte-Gudule

59

(10)

Part Three: Once the Melodrama Gets Going There's a Flood of Weapons

Chapter 13

69

(7)

On Lake Melankton

76

(4)

The Prisoneress of Zenda

80

(5)

The Fake Hortense

85

(5)

Scribbled in the Theater

90

(6)

The Performance

96

(13)

Part Four: Perhaps You Were Hoping for a Graceful Return to Days of Yore?

A Rough End to the Year

109

(5)

Ophelia Lets Herself Be Persuaded

114

(5)

Notebook of a Return to the Land of My Birth

119

(7)

Hortense Is Rescued

126

(3)

The Downfall

129

(5)

The Downfall

134

(9)

Part Five: In Which We Contemplate Elementary Laws

A Heroine's Despair

143

(5)

The Poltengrad Literary Festival

148

(5)

Such a Beautiful Word: Jealousy

153

(5)

Laurie and Carlotta Leave for Poldevia

158

(6)

The Importance of Being Faithful, or Girltalk

164

(5)

Men, Books, and Redheads

169

(8)

Part Six: The Classic Tearful Parting from the Attractions of a Novel Nearing Its End

O How Very Unhappy the Othello Whose lago Is Desdemona!

177

(4)

Suspicion

181

(4)

Say: ``33!''

185

(6)

The Meeting on the Faiwmurr Pass

191

(4)

Jealousy

195

(2)

Bathing One Last Time with Hortense

197

(6)

Envoi and 37. In Which the Novel Comes to an End and the Characters Go Their Separate Ways to Tend to Their Own Personal Affairs

203

(6)

Post-end

209

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