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1	Zazie Dans Le Metro more books like this by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.96! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Exercises in style more books like this by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist A difficult-to-classify work in which a trivial incident on a bus is described in 99 different styles, reflecting Queneau's idea that literature can come from the most banal and insignificant plot. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $7.52! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Exercices de Style more books like this by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! new only from $28.98!
4	Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phemenology of Spirit more books like this by Alexandre Kojeve, James H Nicholas (Translator), Raymond Queneau (Photographer) add to wishlist During the years 1933-1939, the Marxist political philosopher Alexandre Kojeve brilliantly explicated--through a series of lectures--the philosophy of Hegel as it was developed in the Phenomenology of Spirit. Based on the major work by Kojeve, this collection of lectures was chosen by Bloom to show the intensity of Kojeve's study and thought and ... see all copies from $13.99! new only from $15.54! \| SVS
5	Zazie in the Metro more books like this by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright (Translator) add to wishlist Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrived in Paris from the country to stay with her female-impersonator uncle, Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the Metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure. see all copies from $3.47! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
6	Witch Grass more books like this by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright (Translator) add to wishlist Raymond Queneau's first novel, published in 1933, is the circuitous story of a bank clerk whose mind-numbing job has stifled his identity. But one day, entirely by accident, he is awakened, and utterly changed. This transformation is witnessed by a man in a café. Eventually, the two team up, and share an obsession with a fortune that is purported ... see all copies from $6.75! new only from $9.13! \| SVS
7	The Blue Flowers more books like this by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.37! new only from $9.37! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Heartsnatcher by Boris Vian add to wishlist Originally published in 1953, HEARTSNATCHER is crammed with eccentrics, among them Timortis, a psychiatrist whose own dull life prompts him to appropriate the dreams of his more interesting patients, and a paranoid housewife named Clementine who almost literally smothers her triplets with maternal devotion. The novel is French writer Boris Vian's ... see all copies from $3.08! new only from $7.81! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The last days more books like this by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist "The Last Days" is an autobiographical novel of Parisian student life in the 1920's. It has been expertly translated by Barbara Wright, and includes several helpful pages of notes that place the novel in its social and historical context. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Saint-Glinglin more books like this by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist A fantasy satirizing anthropology, folklore, philosophy, and epistemology. see all copies from $3.04! new only from $6.26! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Stories and Remarks more books like this by Raymond Queneau, Marc Lowenthal (Translator) add to wishlist Raymond Queneau (1903-76), a member of the Oulipo group of experimental French writers, was known for his unclassifiable prose works. This collection of enigmatic and/or satirical short pieces includes a retelling of ALICE IN WONDERLAND (called "Alice in France"), a play called IN PASSING (reminiscent of WAITING FOR GODOT), and a story about one ... see all copies from $3.03! new only from $7.65! \| SVS
12 view cover	Les Ziaux/Eyeseas more books like this by Raymond Queneau, Daniela Hurezanu (Translator), Stephen Kessler (Translator) add to wishlist In the United States, Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) is known mainly for his novel "Zazie dans le metro", which was made into a film by Louis Malle, for "Excercises in Style", and for being the founder and one of the most important members of the literary movement known as Oulipo. In France and much of Europe Queneau is known for his prolific and ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $19.08!
13	Zazie by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist see all copies from $4.06! first editions
14 view cover	Odile more books like this by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist This autobiographical novel, first published in French in 1937, is a love story set against the surrealistic intellectual life of Paris in the 1930's. It is a marvelous portrait of the intellectual ferment of the time and the crosscurrents that flowed between the political and artistic avant-gardes. see all copies from $4.98! new only from $10.94! \| first editions
15 view cover	We Always Treat Women Too Well more books like this by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright (Translator) add to wishlist Queneau's 1947 novel didn't originally have his name on it: it was supposedly written in Gaelic by an Irishwoman named Sally Mara, then translated into French by her French teacher. The story is set during the Irish uprising of 1916: a group of Sinn Féin revolutionaries kill two employees in a Dublin post office. Everyone scatters--except for a ... see all copies from $4.73! new only from $8.55! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Elementary Morality more books like this by Raymond Queneau, Philip Terry (Translator), David Bellos (Introduction by) add to wishlist Raymond Queneau (1903-76) was born at Le Havre in 1903, where he was educated before studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. Between 1924 and 1929 Queneau was active in the surrealist movement and composed its manifesto, "Permettez!". Queneau collaborated with a number of Nouvelle Vague film directors, most successfully with Louis Malle's 1960 ... see all copies from $12.75! new only from $13.64! \| SVS
17	The bark-tree (Le Chiendent): a novel more books like this by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist see all copies from $11.00! first editions
18	Chiendent by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! new only from $16.34! \| SVS
19 view cover	Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70 more books like this by Raymond Queneau, Jordan Stump (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ("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 ... see all copies from $33.30! new only from $34.75! \| SVS
20	Introduction to the reading of Hegel more books like this by Alexandre Kojève, Raymond Queneau add to wishlist see all copies from $22.00! first editions \| SVS
21	Intimes Tagebuch Der Sally Mara by Eugen; Queneau Helmle, Raymond add to wishlist see all copies from $22.99!
22 view cover	Children of Clay by Raymond Queneau, Madeleine Velguth (Translator) add to wishlist This was Queneau's fifth novel, first published in 1938. Alain Calame, editor of the prose volume of Gallimard's edition of Queneau's work, declared it the masterpiece of her prewar period. Rich in fantasy and invention, it is also full of historical and philosophical illusions and presents a lively portrait of French society in the first half of ... see all copies from $14.95! first editions
23 view cover	Ejercicios de Estilo more books like this by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist see all copies from $16.45! new only from $21.02!
24	The skin of dreams by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist see all copies from $30.55! new only from $120.00! \| first editions
25	Cent Mille Milliards de Poemes more books like this by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist see all copies from $50.00! new only from $109.00!

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