Raymond Queneau

• Feb-1973
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Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau''s work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. The Flight of Icarus (Le Vol d''lcare) is his only novel writte...

• Feb-1977
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The Sunday of Life (Le Dimanche de la vie), the late Raymond Queneau’s tenth novel, was first published in French by Gallimard in 1951 and is now appearing for the first time in this country, in a translation by Barbara Wright. Critics are univers...

• Sep-1981
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We Always Treat Women Too Well was first published as a purported work of pulp fiction by one Sally Mara, but this novel by Raymond Queneau is a further manifestation of his sly, provocative, wonderfully wayward genius. Set in Dublin during the 1916 ...

• May-1985
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Only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's 1964 novel. At his death in 1976, Raymond Queneau was one of France's most eminent men of lettersâ€"â€"novelist, poet, essayist, editor, s...

• Nov-1987
• / Mystery
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In this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy.The Skin of Dr...

• Sep-1989
• / Literary
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Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation. From his short-lived job at a Pa...

• Oct-1996
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The Last Days is Raymond Queneau's autobiographical novel of Parisian student life in the 1920s: Vincent Tuquedenne tries to reconcile his love for reading with the sterility of studying as he hopes to study his way out of the petite bourgeoisie to w...

• Feb-1999
• / General Fiction
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First published in France in 1937, this brilliant, moving novel is about the devastating psychological effects of war, about falling in love, about politics subverting human relationships, and about life in Paris during the early 1930s amid intellect...

• Feb-2000
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Queneau's tragicomic masterpiece which retells in an array of styles the primal Freudian myth of sons killing the father.

Queneau satirizes anthropology, folklore, philosophy, and epistemology while spinning a story as appealing as a fairy tale abo...

• Sep-2000
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Stories and Remarks collects the best of Raymond Queneau's shorter prose. The works span his career and include short stories, an uncompleted novel, melancholic and absurd essays, occasionally baffling "Texticles," a pastiche of Alice in Wonderland, ...

• Oct-2001
• / Action Adventure
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Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is s...

• Jan-2003
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Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow comes to life, precipitating a series of comic run-ins among a range of disreputable and h...

• Apr-2009
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• Feb-2013
• / General Fiction
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A new edition of a French modernist classic - a Parisian scene told ninety-nine different ways - with new material written in homage by the likes of Jonathan Lethem, Rivka Galchen, and many more.On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes on...

• Feb-2023
• / Literary
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Sally Mara’s Intimate Diary, dating from 1950, is exceptional; a salacious, black humorous and meaningful story by the influential and erudite French novelist, Raymond Queneau. When ‘Sally Mara’ begins her diary in January 1934, she is 17 years...