Raymond Queneau





Raymond Queneau

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born
February 21, 1903 in Le Havre, France

died
October 25, 1976

gender
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About this author

Queneau was born in Le Havre in 1903 and went to Paris when he was 17. For some time he joined André Breton's Surrealist group, but after only a brief stint he dissociated himself. Now, seeing Queneau's work in retrospect, it seems inevitable. The Surrealists tried to achieve a sort of pure expression from the unconscious, without mediation of the author's self-aware "persona." Queneau's texts, on the contrary, are quite deliberate products of the author's conscious mind, of his memory, his intentionality.
Although Queneau's novels give an impression of enormous spontaneity, they were in fact painstakingly conceived in every small detail. He even once remarked that he simply could not leave to hazard the task of determining the number of cha...more


Average rating: 3.98 · 5,126 ratings · 496 reviews · 67 distinct works
Exercises in Style
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 1,431 ratings — published 1947 — 49 editions
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Zazie in the Metro
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The Blue Flowers
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 1965 — 14 editions
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Pierrot Mon Ami
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1943 — 9 editions
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We Always Treat Women Too Well
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1947 — 10 editions
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Witch Grass
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1933 — 5 editions
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The Flight of Icarus
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1968 — 7 editions
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The Last Days
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1937 — 6 editions
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Odile
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1937 — 5 editions
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The Sunday of Life
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1952 — 11 editions
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More books by Raymond Queneau…
“Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.”
Raymond Queneau, Zazie in the Metro

“La vie? Un rien l'amène, un rien l'anime, un rien la mine, un rien l'emmène.”
Raymond Queneau

“He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.”
Raymond Queneau

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