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Letters, numbers, forms : essays, 1928-70 / Raymond Queneau ; translated by Jordan Stump.
Van Pelt Library PQ2633.U43 B313 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Queneau, Raymond, 1903-1976.
- Standardized Title:
- Bâtons, chiffres et lettres. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--Translations into English.
- French literature.
- French literature--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Pictograms 1
- The Rat, the Vine, and the Thief 10
- The Air and the Song 12
- Intellectual Fashion 14
- Written in 1937 17
- Technique of the Novel 26
- The Unfinished Symphony 30
- What Is Art? 33
- Plus and Minus 38
- Wealth and Limit 43
- Humor and Its Victims 48
- De Jean Coste and L'Experience poetique 54
- Lyricism and Poetry 59
- Strange Tastes 65
- Myth and Imposture 69
- On Unrecognized Geniuses 72
- Lost Horizons 76
- The Writer and Language 80
- Toward Reality, but What Reality? 86
- The Birth and the Future of Literature 90
- The Place of Mathematics in the Classification of the Sciences 96
- Readings for a Front 101
- Academic Language 133
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame / Victor Hugo 135
- Bouvard and Pecuchet / Gustave Flaubert 140
- People Are Talking 155
- Mosquitoes / William Faulkner 157
- Miro, or The Prehistoric Poet 162
- Defontenay 168
- Conversation with Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes 174
- Potential Literature 181
- A Curious Evolution of Modern French 200
- Provenance of the Essays in this Volume 229.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252031878
- 0252031873
- OCLC:
- 82673650
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