Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1992. First edition. 211pp. Green cloth. Spine mildly cocked, else fine in an unclipped jacket. First American edition of the fourth and final Hortense novel by French writer, mathematician, and OULIPO member Jacques Roubaud (1932-2024). Published in French in 1990, here translated into English by Dominic Di Bernardi.
