To tell the tale of his intellectual coming-of-age, Queneau calls on not one character but seven. Three are adults: a petty con man who has just found ambition, a portly geography teacher who has just ...

When it came to the novel, Raymond Queneau imagined a kind that would advance along strict compositional lines, like poetry or architecture, yet upset all expectation. Take “The Blue Flowers,” ...

Raymond Queneau, trans. from the French by Chris Clarke. NYRB Classics, $16.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-68137-770-4 This breezy and witty episodic novel from Queneau (1903–1976), originally ...

‘Si tu t’imagines,’ Juliette Gréco sang. ‘If you imagine.’ It was her first time singing in public, on 22 June 1949, at the Boeuf sur le Toit cabaret, the beginning of her seven-decade reign as the ...

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Now that we are enmeshed in the decade of commemorations, it might be apposite to recall that one of the most outlandish and Bohemian – if not exactly instructive – commemorations of 1916 was a ...

Raymond Queneau (1903-76) was a French novelist and poet. His output was not inconsiderable—18 novels, more than a dozen books of poems and many collections of essays and journals. But he is most ...

Part I: Translation and the Intellectual Worlds of Calvino and Queneau An introduction to the intellectual worlds of Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino ...

Entry 2176 of Raymond Queneau’s journal quotes this dialogue from the comic strip Pogo, and although it is atypical of Queneau’s practice to cite the American English, it is altogether typical and ...

Midway between Lewis Carroll and Jacques Derrida, in a deliriously witty dimension of its own, lies Queneau's Exercises in Style. In 1947, the peerless prankster of French literature published 99 ...