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Collects the best of the author's shorter prose that 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.

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"Sublime additions to Raymond Queneau's sublime novels, Stories and Remarks are dryly comic, beautifully made, and despite their gorgeous absurdities, as unassuming as a cup of coffee. A book of pleasures and surprises."--Gilbert Sorrentino. "This absorbing collection definitively confirms the ingenuity, inventiveness, and variety of Raymond Queneau's genius. It will delight and surprise those already familiar with his novels and beguile the newcomer with its multitude of approaches to the work of a great and utterly original author."--Harry Mathews _ "This is a translation of a collection of Raymond Queneau's short prose pieces, originally called, with deliberate casualness, Contes et propos. To translate Queneau at all is a bold undertaking ... but Lowenthal is sufficiently inventive with his English to convey the spirit of the French most of the time... [and] provides an informative introduction with a nod to each of Queneau's enthusiasms."--Times Literary Supplement, February 16, 2001

Stories and Remarks

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    A Paperback / softback by Raymond Queneau, Marc Lowenthal, Michel Leiris

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      Publisher University of Nebraska Press
      Published 1 August 2000
      ISBN-13 9780803288522
      978-0803288522
      ISBN-10 0803288522
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      Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Collects the best of the author's shorter prose that 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.

      Trade Review
      "Sublime additions to Raymond Queneau's sublime novels, Stories and Remarks are dryly comic, beautifully made, and despite their gorgeous absurdities, as unassuming as a cup of coffee. A book of pleasures and surprises."--Gilbert Sorrentino. "This absorbing collection definitively confirms the ingenuity, inventiveness, and variety of Raymond Queneau's genius. It will delight and surprise those already familiar with his novels and beguile the newcomer with its multitude of approaches to the work of a great and utterly original author."--Harry Mathews _ "This is a translation of a collection of Raymond Queneau's short prose pieces, originally called, with deliberate casualness, Contes et propos. To translate Queneau at all is a bold undertaking ... but Lowenthal is sufficiently inventive with his English to convey the spirit of the French most of the time... [and] provides an informative introduction with a nod to each of Queneau's enthusiasms."--Times Literary Supplement, February 16, 2001

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