Raymond Queneau

Exercises in style

The blue flowers

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

Paul Fournel

Chris Clarke

The Skin of Dreams is a novel of waking dreams. Even as he lives his life, Jacques L’Aumône, its hero, daydreams a hundred other possible lives. A few lines on a page, a chance encounter, a remark overheard in passing, any of these are enough to kick things into gear and send him off outside of himself to become a boxer, a general, a bishop, or a lord. He lives alongside his life with diligence and steadfastness; and the passage from real to dream is so natural for him that he no longer knows precisely which him he is. Eventually he becomes an actor in Hollywood, and the basis of countless dreams for others. This Jacques L’Aumône, like the characters who surround him, has the same sort of haunting and fluid consistency as someone that we might dream of in our beds at night. And reverie, here, is born through the tale’s humor, which is as gentle as it is cruel, as well as by way of a writing technique that is itself drawn from one of Queneau’s great loves, the cinema.

The Skin of Dreams

Zazi w metrze

Romulus Bucur

Luca Piţu

Exercitii de stil

Chene Et Chien/Petite Cosmogonie Portative/Le Chant Du Styrene

Paulo Werneck

'Zazie no metrô' é um romance que narra as andanças da desbocada Zazie por Paris. Vinda do interior, Zazie chega à capital para passar alguns dias, sob os cuidados do tio Gabriel, com duas obsessões na cabeça - andar de metrô e usar uma calça jeans pela primeira vez. Mas uma greve dos transportes coletivos impede a menina de fazer seu passeio subterrâneo e, para ganhar a sonhada calça jeans, ela se vê às voltas com um sujeito que não se sabe se é um tarado ou um policial.

Zazie no metrô

On Est Toujours Trop Bon Avec Les Femmes

Zazie nel metró

Morale élémentaire

Elementary morality =

Stilövningar

Contes Et Propos

Les enfants du limon

Stilübungen

Le Chiendent , a Novel by Raymond Queneau. Translated from the French by Barbara Wright

Raymond Queneau

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