« Zazie, déclare Gabriel en prenant un air majestueux trouvé sans peine dans son répertoire, si ça te plaît de voir vraiment les Invalides et le tombeau véritable du vrai Napoléon, je t''y conduirai.
Zazie, una ragazzina ribelle e insolente, arriva nella Parigi degli anni ''50 dalla provincia. Il suo sogno è vedere il metró; ma se uno sciopero glielo impedisce, nessuno può trattenerla dal salire
Aux amateurs curieux d''explorer plus avant d''autres aspects de la personnalité de Raymond Queneau, et de son ?uvre, nous présentons avec ce court texte inédit et inachevé une facette peu connue (oubliee ?) et pourtant recurrente et non negligeable de sa production litteraire, ancree dans un " art de l''illusion " derive, semble-t-il, de la pratique du surrealisme et de Fantomas.
In late nineteenth-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character, who is now in Montparnasse, where he learns to drink absinthe and is picked up by a friendly prostitute.These hilarious adventures make Queneau's novel, presented in the form of a script and parodying various genres, one of the best literary jokes in modern literature.
On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it. Later, in another part of town, Queneau sees the man being advised by a friend to sew another button on his overcoat. "Exercises in Style" retells this unexceptional tale ninety-nine times in ninety-nine different styles. An 'Abusive' chapter heartily deplores the events, 'Opera English' lends them grandeur. Raymond Queneau rendered Barbara Wright his 'heartiest congratulations', adding, 'I have always thought that nothing is untranslatable. Here is new proof'.
Es un texto agridulce, divertido y descarnado a ratos, donde se narra la historia de un joven confundido, que apenas sospecha a qué quiere consagrar su vida, qué y quién merecen su interés o su amor. Para descubrirlo emprende un periplo que, como corresponde a todo aprendizaje que se precie, resulta en su mayor parte decepcionante. En este sentido, Odile es un logrado exponente de la tradicion del bildungroman, ademas de un inquietante artefacto literario fruto de la caracteristica aficion de Queneau al juego verbal.
Rraymond Queneau participó activamente en el surrealismo aunque lo asimilara añadiéndole un tono algo festivo y popular. Su obra es un luminoso laboratorio lingüístico y cultural, abierto siempre a l
La locuacidad de Queneau, una oscilación permanente entre sueño y relaidad, entre literatura y lenguaje oral nunca se separa de un humor erudito destinado a deleitarnos
