Letters, Numbers, Forms Essays, 1928-70

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.Queneau, Raymond is the author of 'Letters, Numbers, Forms Essays, 1928-70', published 2007 under ISBN 9780252031878 and ISBN 0252031873.