Aux amateurs curieux d''explorer plus avant d''autres aspects de la personnalité de Raymond Queneau, et de son ?uvre, nous présentons avec ce court texte inédit et inachevé une facette peu connue (oubliee ?) et pourtant recurrente et non negligeable de sa production litteraire, ancree dans un " art de l''illusion " derive, semble-t-il, de la pratique du surrealisme et de Fantomas.
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, presented in the form of a script and parodying various genres, one of the best literary jokes in modern literature.
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 sew another button on his overcoat. "Exercises in Style" retells this unexceptional tale ninety-nine times in ninety-nine different styles. An 'Abusive' chapter heartily deplores the events, 'Opera English' lends them grandeur. Raymond Queneau rendered Barbara Wright his 'heartiest congratulations', adding, 'I have always thought that nothing is untranslatable. Here is new proof'.
Es un texto agridulce, divertido y descarnado a ratos, donde se narra la historia de un joven confundido, que apenas sospecha a qué quiere consagrar su vida, qué y quién merecen su interés o su amor. Para descubrirlo emprende un periplo que, como corresponde a todo aprendizaje que se precie, resulta en su mayor parte decepcionante. En este sentido, Odile es un logrado exponente de la tradicion del bildungroman, ademas de un inquietante artefacto literario fruto de la caracteristica aficion de Queneau al juego verbal.
Rraymond Queneau participó activamente en el surrealismo aunque lo asimilara añadiéndole un tono algo festivo y popular. Su obra es un luminoso laboratorio lingüístico y cultural, abierto siempre a l
Zazie débarque à Paris pour la première fois chez son tonton Gabriel. Le Panthéon, les Invalides et le tombeau du véritable Napoléon, elle s'en contrefiche. Mais kess-qui l'intéresse alors, Zazie, à
The cult classic from one of Frances most stylish writersDont give a damn, says Zazie, what I wanted was to go in the metroImpish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. 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 Queneaus cult classic was made into a hugely successful film by Louis Malle. Packed full of word play and phonetic games, Zazie in the Metro remains as stylish and witty as ever.
