Showing posts with label Jacques Roubaud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacques Roubaud. Show all posts

Monday, 15 February 2016

Jacques Roubaud: Hortense in Exile


Set to marry Gormanskoï, 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 tale scandalously plagiarized by that Englishman William Shahkayspear?