Showing posts with label Queneau (Raymond). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queneau (Raymond). Show all posts
24 May 2022

Raymond Queneau in Saint-Épain, Indre-et-Loire (37)

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  Of course, Raymond Queneau was born in Le Havre, although his father Auguste was born in Saint-Épain in 1870. Auguste's family worked ...
16 March 2020

Promenade Littéraire #13: Raymond Queneau, Rue Casimir-Périer, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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#13, Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), Rue Casimir-Périer. Queneau was born and grew up in Le Havre and his novel Un rude hiver (1939) is set...
25 May 2019

Raymond Queneau: Un rude hiver | A Hard Winter (1939)

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Like, for instance, 'Bouville' in Sartre's novel La Nausée (1938), Armand Salacrou's play Boulevard Durand (1960) and m...
28 October 2014

Raymond Queneau: Les Enfants du limon (1938)

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Les Enfants du limon – Children of Clay in the translated version – is Raymond Queneau's fifth novel, which is a fictionalisation...
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18 September 2014

Raymond Queneau in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne

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'RAYMOND QUENEAU 1903 – 1976' Queneau lies with his parents in the small cemetery of Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne. Famous abov...
3 December 2013

Charles Nodier: Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise #9

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'CHARLES NODIER MEMBRE DE L'ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE ET DE LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR BIBLIOTHÉCAIRE DE L'ARSE...
21 December 2012

André Blavier: Les Fous littéraires (1982; repr. 2000) #1

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It was while reading an article on Raymond Queneau that I discovered André Blavier (1922–2001), whose huge book Les Fous littéraires ...
14 June 2012

Boris Vian: L'Écume des jours (1947)

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The first paragraph of L'Écume des jours (variously translated in English, and two publications have rendered it Mood Indigo 1 and...
22 May 2012

Louis Wolfson and Schizophrenic Languages

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Louis Wolfson's second book, the highly alliterative Ma mère, musicienne, est morte de maladie maligne à minuit, mardi à mercredi, a...
5 December 2011

Raymond Queneau: Exercices de style (1947)

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Queneau's Exercices de style first takes place on a former 'S' line bus in Paris, where there's a man of about 26 with a...