Stories & remarks
By: Raymond Queneau ; with a preface by Michel Leiris ; translated and with an introduction by Marc Lowenthal.
Contributors: Lowenthal, Marc, 1969-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Other titles: Stories and remarks
Description: Stories and Remarks collects the best of Raymond Queneau's shorter prose. The works span his career and include short stories, an uncompleted novel, melancholic and absurd essays, occasionally baffling "Texticles", a pastiche of Alice in Wonderland, and his only play. Talking dogs, boozing horses, and suicides come head to head with ruminations on the effects of aerodynamics on addition, rhetorical dreams, and a pioneering example of permutational fiction influenced by computer language. Also included is Michel Leiris's preface from the French edition, an introduction by the translator, and endnotes addressing each piece individually.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-155).