| Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70 Contributor(s): Queneau, Raymond (Author), Stump, Jordan (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0252031873 ISBN-13: 9780252031878 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $48.51 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2007 Annotation: Compiled from two volumes of Raymond Queneau's essays (Batons, chiffres et lettres and Le Voyage en Grece), these selections find Queneau at his most playful and at his most serious, eloquently pleading for a certain classicism even as he reveals the roots of his own wildly original oeuvre. Ranging from the funny to the furious, they follow Queneau from modernism to postmodernism by way of countless fascinating detours, including his thoughts on language, literary fashions, myth, politics, poetry, and other writers (Faulkner, Flaubert, Hugo, and Proust). Translator Jordan Stump provides an introduction as well as explanatory notes about key figures and Queneau himself. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 844.912 |
| LCCN: 2007005151 |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.42" W x 9.16" (1.30 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
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| Publisher Description: The first English translation of essays from one of the twentieth century's most intriguing avant-garde writers Compiled from two volumes of Raymond Queneau's essays (B tons, chiffres et lettres and Le Voyage en Gr ce), these selections find Queneau at his most playful and at his most serious, eloquently pleading for a certain classicism even as he reveals the roots of his own wildly original oeuvre. Ranging from the funny to the furious, they follow Queneau from modernism to postmodernism by way of countless fascinating detours, including his thoughts on language, literary fashions, myth, politics, poetry, and other writers (Faulkner, Flaubert, Hugo, and Proust). Translator Jordan Stump provides an introduction as well as explanatory notes about key figures and Queneau himself. |