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Books by Raymond Queneau
  | | Zazie in the Metro(Updated) (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright, Gilbert Adair Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2001 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-218004-4, ISBN: 0-14-218004-1 "Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute. In 1960 Queneau's cult classic was made into a hugely successful film by Louis Malle. Packed full of word ..." |
 | | Exercises in Style, Cover may vary(2nd Edition) by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 1981 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-0789-8, ISBN: 0-8112-0789-7 "A twentysomething bus rider with a long, skinny neck and a goofy hat accuses another passenger of trampling his feet; he then grabs an empty seat. Later, in a park, a friend encourages the same man to reorganize the buttons on his overcoat. In Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, this determinedly pointless scenario unfolds 99 times in twice as many pages. Originally published in 1947 (in French), these terse variations on a them ..." |
 | | We Always Treat Women Too Well (Paperback) by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 2017 by Alma Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-84749-712-3, ISBN: 1-84749-712-8 "Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women Too Well is set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising and tells the story of the siege of a small post office by a group of rebels, who discover to their embarrassment that a female postal clerk, Gertie Girdle, is still in the lavatory some time after they have shot or expelled the rest of the staff. The even ..." |
 | | Exercises in Style (New Directions Books) by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright, Chris Clarke Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2013 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2035-4, ISBN: 0-8112-2035-4 "A new edition of a French modernist classic - a Parisian scene told ninety-nine different ways - with new material written in homage by the likes of Jonathan Lethem, Rivka Galchen, and many more. On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it. Later, in another part of town, Queneau sees the man being advised by a friend to ..." |
 | | The Flight of Icarus(3rd Edition) Novel (New Directions Books) by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright Paperback, 191 Pages, Published 1973 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-0483-5, ISBN: 0-8112-0483-9 "The Flight of Icarus (Le Vol d'lcare) is his only novel written in the form of a play: seventy-four short scenes, complete with stage directions.Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau's work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. The Flight of Icarus (Le Vol d'lcare) is his only novel written in the form of a play: seventy-four short ..." |
 | | Witch Grass(1st Edition) by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2003 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-031-1, ISBN: 1-59017-031-8 "Seated in a Paris cafe, 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 abo ..." |
 | | The Blue Flowers by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright, Robert Powell Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 2018 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2792-6, ISBN: 0-8112-2792-8 "A romp through the ages, by a writer “who inspires newsletters, fan clubs, and passionate exegeses” (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post)The Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d’Auge as he rages through history―about 700 years of it―refusing to crusade, clobbering his king with a cannon, and dabbling in alchemy. B ..." |
 | | Stories and Remarks(1st Edition) (French Modernist Library) by Raymond Queneau, Marc Lowenthal, Michel Leiris Paperback, 159 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-8852-2, ISBN: 0-8032-8852-2 "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 pe ..." |
 | | Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau, B. Wright Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1973 by Calder Publications Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-1144-3, ISBN: 0-7145-1144-7 "The Flight of Icarus (Le Vol d'lcare) is his only novel written in the form of a play: seventy-four short scenes, complete with stage directions.Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau's work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. The Flight of Icarus (Le Vol d'lcare) is his only novel written in the form of a play: seventy-four short ..." |
 | | The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2017 by Alma Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-84749-711-6, ISBN: 1-84749-711-X "In late-nineteenth-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, who is now in Montparnasse, where he learns to drink absinthe and is picked up by a friendly prostitute. These hilarious adventures make Queneau’s novel, ..." |
 | | The Sunday of Life (Paperback) by Raymond Queneau 224 Pages, Published 2017 by Alma Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84749-710-9, ISBN: 1-84749-710-1 "When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she's going to marry the handsome soldier Valentin, he willingly goes along with her scheme." |
 | | Hitting the Streets by Raymond Queneau, Rachel Galvin Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2013 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-157-5, ISBN: 1-84777-157-2 "Taxi drivers, street sweepers, a bouquiniste, unsuccessful prostitutes, a menaced bicycle rider, noisy children, an old woman shunted aside in a crowd, and some disgruntled animals at the zoo populate these poems. Unreeling like a series of clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, the book is wickedly funny, but it is also a bittersweet meditation on how "the river of forgetfulness carries away the city." This is the poet's love le ..." |
 | | Elementary Morality by Raymond Queneau, Philip Terry, David Bellos Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 2008 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-85754-948-5, ISBN: 1-85754-948-1 "Raymond Queneau (1903-76) was born at Le Havre in 1903, where he was educated before studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. Between 1924 and 1929 Queneau was active in the surrealist movement and composed its manifesto, "Permettez!". Queneau collaborated with a number of Nouvelle Vague film directors, most successfully with Louis Malle's 1960 adaptation of his novel "Zazie dans le metro". Also, Juliette Greco made popular his song "Si tu t' ..." |
 | | Letters, Numbers, Forms(1st Edition) Essays, 1928-70 by Raymond Queneau, Jordan Stump Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-03187-8, ISBN: 0-252-03187-3 "The first English translation of essays from one of the twentieth century's most intriguing avant-garde writersCompiled from two volumes of Raymond Queneau's essays ("Batons, chiffres et lettres" and "Le Voyage en Grece"), 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 fur ..." |
 | | We Always Treat Women Too Well(1st Edition) (New York Review Books Classics) by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright, Professor John Updike Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2003 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-030-4, ISBN: 1-59017-030-X ""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 ..." |
 | | Odile(1st Edition) by Raymond Queneau, Carol Sanders Paperback, 119 Pages, Published 1999 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-209-0, ISBN: 1-56478-209-3 "Fiction. First published in France in 1937, this brilliant, moving novel is about the devastating psychological effects of war, about falling in love, about politics subverting human relationships, and about life in Paris during the early 1930s amid intellecturals and artists whose activities range from writing for radical magazines to conjuring the ghost of Lenin in seances. Raymon Queneau (1903-1976) has been one of the most powerful ..." |
 | | French Literature Ser.(1st Edition) Saint Glinglin by Raymond Queneau, James Sallis Hardcover, 169 Pages, Published 1993 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-027-0, ISBN: 1-56478-027-9 |
 | | Pierrot Mon Ami (French Literature Series) by Raymond Queneau, Inez Hedges, Barbara Wright Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1989 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-397-4, ISBN: 1-56478-397-9 ""Pierrot Mon Ami was perhaps Queneau's masterpiece . . . This unlikely guru exerted a major influence on a new avant-garde (notably on Georges Perec, who was devoted to him). But if there was a sage in Queneau he never imparted his wisdom more touchingly than in Pierrot Mon Ami."—Times Literary SupplementPierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau's finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a y ..." |
 | | The Blue Flowers(1st Edition) (New Directions Paperbook) by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright, Vivian Kogan, Robert Powell Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 1985 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-0945-8, ISBN: 0-8112-0945-8 "Only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's 1964 novel.At his death in 1976, Raymond Queneau was one of France's most eminent men of letters––novelist, poet, essayist, editor, scientist, mathematician, and, more to the point, pataphysician. And only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's 1964 nove ..." |
 | | Zazie in the Metro(Updated) by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright Paperback, 207 Pages, Published 1982 by Calder Publications/Riverrun Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-3923-2, ISBN: 0-7145-3923-6 "fiction, tr Barbara Wright" |
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