books by Raymond Queneau     books:     Raymond Queneau      Exercises in Style Raymond Queneau New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1981 Etudes The idea for this book came to the author after a performance of Bach's "The Art of the Fugue." Queneau thought it would be interesting to attempt, in prose, a similar exploration of variations on a theme. To that end, he began to write a series of stories exploring ...             Les\Fleurs Bleues Raymond Queneau French & European Pubns, 1978             The Last Days: A Novel (French Literature) Raymond Queneau Dalkey Archive Press, 1996 Sad and lonely boy wanders/wonders through college Sad and funny and beautiful, Queneau watches the world and portrays the smallest of things in the most unique way. Celebrating the simpleton, Queneau looks back at his student years. His head is stuck in books. He meets few friends. Outside, the world swindles and ...             The Blue Flowers (New Directions Paperbook) Raymond Queneau New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1985 The ultimate in literary 'vice versa'. 'The Blue Flowers' is the most lovable of all Raymond Queneau's novels, one of those rare books you never want to end (for me, the only others I can think of are 'Huckleberry Finn' and 'Dance to the music of time'). It relates two paralell narratives (or rather - and ...             The Flight of Icarus (New Directions Book) Raymond Queneau New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1973 Icarus Ascending Hubert, a writer, has lost the main character to the novel he is, well was, writing. After viciously accusing friends and fellow writers of stealing Icarus, he hires the detective Morcol, "who has appeared in many novels under different names," to find him. Soon we ...             Zazie dans le Métro (Folio) (Folio) Raymond Queneau Folio, 1972 Strange and Funny! Raymond Queneau has written a strange but tantalizing little novel about an adolescent named Zazie... she has a New York accent, and the mouth of a Henry Miller. Her misadventures in Paris, prove challenging to those around her,and amusing to the reader. It's am ...             Exercices De Style Raymond Queneau Folio, 1995             Zazie in the Metro (Penguin Classics) Raymond Queneau Penguin Classics, 2001 Unique and Engaging Comedy Raymond Queneau has written a strange but tantalizing little novel about an adolescent named Zazie... she has a New York accent, and the mouth of a Henry Miller. Her misadventures in Paris, prove challenging to those around her,and amusing to the reader. It's a collage ...             Pierrot Mon Ami (French Literature) Raymond Queneau Dalkey Archive Press, 2005 The risks of chance Pierrot turns away from CHOICE to follow coincidence, chance meetings, crossed paths, to follow, dream-like, the destiny that will take him accross France with a tame monkey and a wild boar... A book dedicated to the peace of accepting the direction life sets us, ...             Odile (French Literature) Raymond Queneau Dalkey Archive Press, 1999 THE STRANGER FOR HAPPY PEOPLE Roland Travy states that he was not born until his twenty-first year. It is while in the French army that year that he sees an Arab man gazing at the land and sky. Travy likens him to a poet or a philsopher and it is this image that begins to awaken his true inner ...             We Always Treat Women Too Well (New York Review Books Classics) Raymond Queneau NYRB Classics, 2003 Revolt(ing) or Reveal(ing)? Hilarious! There is rape (maybe?); murder (war?); and an analysis of fashion. The situational morality was the keystone of the book. Should I? Will she? If she doesn't tell did it really happen? Did it really happen? Stereotypes abound in the characters. I have ...             The Sunday of Life Raymond Queneau New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1977 A Life of Sundays This is one of my favourite Queneau novels. Actually it's one of my favourite novels! In one slim volume Queneau achieves a poignancy and oblique truthfulness that is very rarely found in 'modernist' literature. Much is said of Queneau's technique - the neologisms, ...             Witch Grass Raymond Queneau NYRB Classics, 2003 Wonderful, delightful, marvellous I can't begin to explain why this book is so delightful. There are plenty of places to start with Queneau--perhaps the lighter, more accessibly funny Zazie is the best introduction--but this is my favorite. As with all of Queneau, it's a mix of silliness, absurdity, ...             EyeSeas: Selected Poems (Les Ziaux) Raymond Queneau Black Widow Press/Commonwealth Books, Inc., 2008 Les Ziaux (Eyeseas) presents a survey of Raymond Queneau's poems as written from his early Surrealist days of the 1920's through to 1943 and is representative of Queneau's range of poetic voices. Queneau (1903-1976)authored some 18 novels, 10 volumes of poetry, 7 volumes of essays and numerous commentaries, reviews, etc. during his lifetime. A ...             Saint Glinglin Raymond Queneau Dalkey Archive Press, 2000 The first paperback edition of the last of Queneau's novels to be translated into English. Saint Glinglin is a tragicomic masterpiece, a novel that critic Vivian Mercier said "can be mentioned without incongruity in the company" of Mann's Magic Mountain and Joyce's Ulysses. 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