The Last Days

Raymond Queneau. Dalkey Archive Press, $9.94 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-916583-63-7

Parisian student life in the 1920s and Queneau's own intellectual maturation (he was a founding member of Oulipo) inspired this tale of three adults facing old age, three students doomed to military service and one philosopher/waiter central to their six destinies. PW called this ``beguiling. . . . Queneau's literary infractions . . . are not for the sake of novelty but for the sake of the novel.'' (Aug.)

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