Raymond Queneau (1903–1976)
Author of Exercises in Style
About the Author
This French author of treatises on mathematics and other scholarly works has made his reputation writing comic novels. Raymond Queneau (through one of his characters) once defined humor as "an attempt to purge lofty feelings of all the baloney." Roger Shattuck interprets his philosophy: "Life is of show more course absurd and it is ludicrous to take it seriously; only the comic is serious." Life is so serious to Queneau that only laughter makes it bearable. He has written a play, screenplays, poetry, numerous articles, and many novels, the first of which, Le Chiendent (The Bark Tree), was published in 1933. In Exercises in Style (1947) he tells a simple anecdote 99 different ways. According to some critics, The Blue Flowers (1965) represents Queneau at his best. Its jokes, puns, double-entendres, deceptions, wild events, tricky correspondences, and bawdy language make it a feast of comic riches. The influence of Charlie Chaplin, as well as James Joyce is detectable in Queneau's fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Raymond Queneau vers 1970
Series
Works by Raymond Queneau
Histoire des littératures, tome 3 : Littératures françaises, connexes et marginales, suivi d'une Histoire de… (1958) 20 copies
Los escritores célebres 4 copies
Las flores azules 4 copies
De quelques langages animaux imaginaires et notamment du langage chien dans sylvie et bruno. (1971) 3 copies
La canzone del polistirene 2 copies
Raymond Queneau,... Bords : Mathématiciens, précurseurs, encyclopédistes. Illustrations de Georges… 2 copies
2+2=5 2 copies
Heiliger Bimbam Roman 2 copies
À la limite de la forêt 2 copies
Lorsque L'esprit 2 copies
ALBUM RAYMOND QUENEAU 2 copies
Entretiens avec Georges Charbonnier 2 copies
Bucoliques 2 copies
Niedziela życia 1 copy
Exercices de style de Raymond Queneau (fiche de lecture et analyse complète de l'oeuvre) (French Edition) (2019) 1 copy
Êcritures 1 copy
Ma vie en chiffres 1 copy
Zazie en el metro 2016 1 copy
De uitleg van de metaphoren 1 copy
Un duro inverno 1 copy
Yours for the telling 1 copy
Los hijos del viejo limón 1 copy
Taschenkosmogonie ein Poem 1 copy
En verve 1 copy
The Trojan Horse - No.2 1 copy
The First Dozen 1 copy
Il pantano 1 copy
Ecritures 1 copy
Oeuvres de Raymond Queneau (Les Amis de Valentin Bru 23) — Author — 1 copy
Die blauen Blumen Roman 1 copy
Der Hundszahn Roman 1 copy
Associated Works
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit (1947) — some editions — 581 copies
De mooiste verhalen van James Baldwin, John Berger, Jorge Luis Borges, Jane Bowles, Joseph Brodsky, Charles Bukowski,… (1990) — Contributor — 7 copies
ダダ・シュルレアリスム新訳詩集 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Queneau, Raymond
- Legal name
- Queneau, Henri Raymond
- Other names
- Mara, Sally
- Birthdate
- 1903-02-21
- Date of death
- 1976-10-25
- Burial location
- Cimetière de Juvisy-Sur-Orge, Essonne, France
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France (birth)
- Country (for map)
- France
- Birthplace
- Le Havre, France
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Cause of death
- Cancer du poumon
- Places of residence
- Le Havre, France
Paris, France - Education
- Sorbonne (1925|Philosophy ∙ Psychology)
- Occupations
- soldier
reader
general secretary
director
teacher - Organizations
- Oulipo (founder of)
Société Mathématique de France
Éditions Gallimard
Académie Goncourt (1951-1977) - Awards and honors
- Académie Goncourt (1951)
Académie D l'humour (1952)
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Statistics
- Works
- 152
- Also by
- 13
- Members
- 8,513
- Popularity
- #2,828
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 138
- ISBNs
- 481
- Languages
- 29
- Favorited
- 54
- Touchstones
- 191