Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207898
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Queneau uses a variety of literary styles and forms in ninety-nine exercises which retell the same story about a minor brawl aboard a bus.
Exercises in Style
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207898
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Queneau uses a variety of literary styles and forms in ninety-nine exercises which retell the same story about a minor brawl aboard a bus.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207898
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Queneau uses a variety of literary styles and forms in ninety-nine exercises which retell the same story about a minor brawl aboard a bus.
Witch Grass
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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 heartwarming characters living on the sleazy outskirts of the city of lights. Witch Grass (previously titled The Bark Tree) is a philosophical farce, an epic comedy, a mesmerizing book about the daily grind that is an enchantment itself.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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 heartwarming characters living on the sleazy outskirts of the city of lights. Witch Grass (previously titled The Bark Tree) is a philosophical farce, an epic comedy, a mesmerizing book about the daily grind that is an enchantment itself.
We Always Treat Women Too Well
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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 Easter rebellion, it tells of a nubile beauty who finds herself trapped in the central post office when it is seized by a group of rebels. But Gertie Girdle is no common pushover, and she quickly devises a coolly lascivious strategy by which, in very short order, she saves the day for king and country. Queneau's wickedly funny send-up of cheap smut—his response to a popular bodice-ripper of the 1940s—exposes the link between sexual fantasy and actual domination while celebrating the imagination's power to transmute crude sensationalism into pleasure pure and simple.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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 Easter rebellion, it tells of a nubile beauty who finds herself trapped in the central post office when it is seized by a group of rebels. But Gertie Girdle is no common pushover, and she quickly devises a coolly lascivious strategy by which, in very short order, she saves the day for king and country. Queneau's wickedly funny send-up of cheap smut—his response to a popular bodice-ripper of the 1940s—exposes the link between sexual fantasy and actual domination while celebrating the imagination's power to transmute crude sensationalism into pleasure pure and simple.
Queneau's Fiction
Author: Christopher Shorley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521303974
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A general study of Queneau in English, originally published in 1985, which offers a straightforward introduction to his novels and short stories.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521303974
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A general study of Queneau in English, originally published in 1985, which offers a straightforward introduction to his novels and short stories.
Stories and Remarks
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803288522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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, and his only play. Talking dogs, boozing horses, and suicides come head to head with ruminations on the effects of aerodynamics on addition, rhetorical dreams, and a pioneering example of permutational fiction influenced by computer language. Also included is Michel Leiris's preface from the French edition, an introduction by the translator, and endnotes addressing each piece individually. Raymond Queneau?polyglot, novelist, philosopher, poet, mathematician, screenwriter, and translator?was one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century French letters. His work touches on many of the major literary movements of his lifetime, from surrealism to the experimental school of the nouveau roman. He also founded the Oulipo, a collection of writers and mathematicians dedicated to the search for artificial inspiration via the application of constraint.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803288522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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, and his only play. Talking dogs, boozing horses, and suicides come head to head with ruminations on the effects of aerodynamics on addition, rhetorical dreams, and a pioneering example of permutational fiction influenced by computer language. Also included is Michel Leiris's preface from the French edition, an introduction by the translator, and endnotes addressing each piece individually. Raymond Queneau?polyglot, novelist, philosopher, poet, mathematician, screenwriter, and translator?was one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century French letters. His work touches on many of the major literary movements of his lifetime, from surrealism to the experimental school of the nouveau roman. He also founded the Oulipo, a collection of writers and mathematicians dedicated to the search for artificial inspiration via the application of constraint.
The Sunday of Life
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811206457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Sunday of Life, 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 the ingenuous ex-Private Valentin Bru, the central figure in The Sunday of Life, Queneau has created that oddity in modern fiction, the Hegelian naif. Highly self-conscious yet reasonably satisfied with his lot, imbued with the good humor inherent in the naturally wise, Valentin meets the painful nonsense of life's adventures with a slightly bewildered detachment.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811206457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Sunday of Life, 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 the ingenuous ex-Private Valentin Bru, the central figure in The Sunday of Life, Queneau has created that oddity in modern fiction, the Hegelian naif. Highly self-conscious yet reasonably satisfied with his lot, imbued with the good humor inherent in the naturally wise, Valentin meets the painful nonsense of life's adventures with a slightly bewildered detachment.
The Flight of Icarus
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811204835
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Flight of Icarus is Raymond Queneau's only novel written in the form of a play: seventy-four short scenes, complete with stage directions. Consciously parodying Pirandello and Robbe-Grillet, it begins with a novelist's discovery that his principal character, Icarus by name, has vanished. This in turn, sets off a rash of other such disappearances.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811204835
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Flight of Icarus is Raymond Queneau's only novel written in the form of a play: seventy-four short scenes, complete with stage directions. Consciously parodying Pirandello and Robbe-Grillet, it begins with a novelist's discovery that his principal character, Icarus by name, has vanished. This in turn, sets off a rash of other such disappearances.
The Flight of Icarus
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847491022
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
In late 19th-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847491022
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
In late 19th-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character.
Letters, Numbers, Forms
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252031873
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The first English translation of essays from one of the twentieth century's most intriguing avant-garde writers Compiled from two volumes of Raymond Queneau's essays (Bâtons, chiffres et lettres and Le Voyage en Grèce), these selections find Queneau at his most playful and at his most serious, eloquently pleading for a certain classicism even as he reveals the roots of his own wildly original oeuvre. Ranging from the funny to the furious, they follow Queneau from modernism to postmodernism by way of countless fascinating detours, including his thoughts on language, literary fashions, myth, politics, poetry, and other writers (Faulkner, Flaubert, Hugo, and Proust). Translator Jordan Stump provides an introduction as well as explanatory notes about key figures and Queneau himself.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252031873
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The first English translation of essays from one of the twentieth century's most intriguing avant-garde writers Compiled from two volumes of Raymond Queneau's essays (Bâtons, chiffres et lettres and Le Voyage en Grèce), these selections find Queneau at his most playful and at his most serious, eloquently pleading for a certain classicism even as he reveals the roots of his own wildly original oeuvre. Ranging from the funny to the furious, they follow Queneau from modernism to postmodernism by way of countless fascinating detours, including his thoughts on language, literary fashions, myth, politics, poetry, and other writers (Faulkner, Flaubert, Hugo, and Proust). Translator Jordan Stump provides an introduction as well as explanatory notes about key figures and Queneau himself.
The Blue Flowers
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Humorous dream fantasy in which a Duke keeps changing identity as he travels effortlessly through French history.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Humorous dream fantasy in which a Duke keeps changing identity as he travels effortlessly through French history.