Raymond Queneau, Author Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-916583-62-0
To tell the tale of his intellectual coming-of-age, Queneau calls on not one character but seven. Three are adults: a petty con man who has just found ambition, a portly geography teacher who has just found guilt, and a weak-willed publisher of art...
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Raymond Queneau, Author, James Sallis, Translator Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (169p) ISBN 978-1-56478-027-0
For readers willing to relax demands for credibility and logic, Queneau's funny, philosophical nonsense is addictive. Here, Queneau ( Zazie dans le metro ) has created a world, starting with its banalities: the cliches, the tired small talk, the...
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Raymond Queneau, trans. from the French by Chris Clarke. NYRB Classics, $16.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-68137-770-4
This breezy and witty episodic novel from Queneau (1903–1976), originally published in 1944 and newly translated by Clarke, chronicles the episodic adventures of a young dreamer. Jacques L’Aumône is the son of a hosiery manufacturer in Rueil, an...
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Raymond Queneau, Author, Carol Sanders, Designed by Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (119p) ISBN 978-0-916583-34-7
One of the author's early works, this charming, semi-autobiographical novel was written before Queneau developed the highly intellectualized style that became his trademark. Like Queneau, who became involved with the Surrealists in the mid-'20s...
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Raymond Queneau, Author, Barbara Wright, Translator Dalkey Archive Press $9.94 (0p) 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...
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Raymond Queneau, Author, Barbara Wright, Translator, Inez Hedges, Designed by Dalkey Archive Press $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-916583-40-8
Pierrot is a Chaplinesque figure who works at a series of marginal jobs for an amusement park, and competes with his friend Paradis for the affections of the owner's daughter. ``Originally published in France in 1942 and in England in 1950, this...
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Barbara Wright, Translator, Raymond Queneau, Author Dalkey Archive Press $20 (160p) ISBN 978-0-916583-24-8
Originally published in France in 1942 and in England in 1950, this novel's pared down, often vulgar language is supplemented by highly inventive word plays and snippets of philosophy. Pierrot is a Chaplinesque figure who works at a series of...
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