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Oulipo Laboratory (1995)
by Raymond Queneau
The Oulipo was founded in 1960 by a group of leading French writers and mathematicians, it still meets regularly some thirty five years later, making it one of the longest lived and productive literary groupings ever. The Oulipo’s original aim was to inquire into the possibilities of... (learn more about this book)
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The Sunday of Life (1976)
by Raymond Queneau
Text: English, French (translation) (learn more about this book)
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Flight of Icarus (1973)
by Raymond Queneau
Text: English, French (translation) (learn more about this book)
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The Blue Flowers (1966)
by Raymond Queneau
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Exercises in Style (1947)
by Raymond Queneau
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... (learn more about this book)
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We Always Treat Women Too Well (1947)
by Raymond Queneau
Set in Dublin during the 1916 rebellion, this novel tells of a beauty trapped in a post office seized by rebels. This tale celebrates the imagination’s power to transmute crude sensationalism into pure pleasure. (learn more about this book)
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Pierrot Mon Ami (1942)
by Raymond Queneau
Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau's finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning 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... (learn more about this book)
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Odile
by Raymond Queneau
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... (learn more about this book)
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Witch Grass
by Raymond Queneau
Seated in a Paris cafe, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying to the train. Who is he? he wonders, and how does he live? Instantly the shadow comes to life, precipitating a series of hilarious encounters involving a range of disreputable and heartwarming characters that prove... (learn more about this book)
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