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Raymond Queneau

Works by Raymond Queneau

Zazie [Buy Direct]

by Raymond Queneau
Translated by Barbara Wright
Original title: Zazie dans le métro

These are the adventures of Zazie, a cheeky little girl left in her uncle Gabriel’s care for two days. It is her first time in Paris and she has just one thing on her mind — to ride on the métro. This is a real obsession, (more...)

Pierrot Mon Ami [Buy Direct]

by Raymond Queneau
Translated by Barbara Wright
Original title: Pierrot Mon Ami

The Skin of My Dreams [Buy Direct]

by Raymond Queneau
Translated by H.J Kaplan
Original title: Loin de rueil

Flight of Icarus [Buy Direct]

by Raymond Queneau
Translated by Barbara Wright

Sunday of Life [Buy Direct]

by Raymond Queneau
Translated by Barbara Wright

Queneau was a real one-off; a very fluent writer and deeply interested, like a proper French intellectual should be, in politics, psycho-analysis, philosophy and everything profound and abstruse including the history of mathematics. He was also an inveterate ironist. (more...)

Pierrot Mon Ami [Buy Direct]

by Raymond Queneau
Translated by Barbara Wright
Original title: Pierrot Mon Ami

Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau's finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel c oncerning a young man's initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation. From his short-lived job at a Paris amusement park where he helps to raise (more...)

Last Days [Buy Direct]

by Raymond Queneau
Translated by Barbara Wright
Original title: Les Derniers jours

The Last Days is Raymond Queneau's autobiographical novel of Parisian s tudent 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 which he belongs. Vincent and his genera (more...)

Saint Glinglin [Buy Direct]

by Raymond Queneau
Translated by James Sallis
Original title: Saint Glinglin

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. "By turns strange, beautiful, ludicrous, and intellectually stimulating" (as Merc (more...)

Odile [Buy Direct]

by Raymond Queneau
Translated by Carol Sanders
Original title: Odile

"Even though I can't remember my childhood, my memory being as if ravaged by some disaster, t here nevertheless remains a series of images from the time before my birth . . . of my first twenty years, only ruins are left in a memory devastated by unhappiness." These opening lines from Q (more...)

Last Days [Buy Direct]

by Raymond Queneau
Translated by Barbara Wright

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