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MirÂ¢ Lithographs: 1953-1963

Product Description: Originally published in 1975, the second volume in this comprehensive series chronicles MirÃ³'s lithographic work between 1953 and 1963. From 1948 on, MirÃ³ worked in collaboration with prestigious lithographer Fernand Mourlot, who also instructed Picasso and Chagall...read more

By Raymond Queneau (introduced by)

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9788434302211, titled "MirÃ³ Lithographs: 1953-1963" | Poligrafa Ediciones Sa, May 24, 2016, cover price $990.00 | About this edition: Originally published in 1975, the second volume in this comprehensive series chronicles MirÃ³'s lithographic work between 1953 and 1963.

Hitting the Streets / Courir les Rues

Product Description: Taxi drivers, street sweepers, a bouquiniste, unsuccessful prostitutes, a menaced bicycle rider, noisy children, an old woman shunted aside in a crowd, and some disgruntled animals at the zoo populate these poems. Unreeling like a series of clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, the book is wickedly funny, but it is also a bittersweet meditation on how "the river of forgetfulness carries away the city...read more

By Rachel Galvin (trans) and Raymond Queneau

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9781847771575 | Bilingual edition (Carcanet Pr, August 1, 2013), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Taxi drivers, street sweepers, a bouquiniste, unsuccessful prostitutes, a menaced bicycle rider, noisy children, an old woman shunted aside in a crowd, and some disgruntled animals at the zoo populate these poems.

We Always Treat Women Too Well

Product Description: Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, "We Always Treat Women too Well" is set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising and tells the story of the siege of a small post office by a group of rebels, who discover to their embarrassment that a female postal clerk, Gertie Girdle, is still in the lavatory some time after they have shot or expelled the rest of the staff...read more

By Raymond Queneau and Barbara Wright (trans)

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9781847491633 | Gardners Books, October 1, 2010, cover price $13.60 | also contains We Always Treat Women Too Well | About this edition: Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, "We Always Treat Women too Well" is set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising and tells the story of the siege of a small post office by a group of rebels, who discover to their embarrassment that a female postal clerk, Gertie Girdle, is still in the lavatory some time after they have shot or expelled the rest of the staff.

9781590170304 | New York Review of Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: We Always Treat Women Too Well was first published as a purported work of pulp fiction by one Sally Mara, but this novel by Raymond Queneau is a further manifestation of his sly, provocative, wonderfully wayward genius.

Les Ziaux (Eyeseas)

Product Description: 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...read more

By Daniela Hurezanu (trans), Stephen Kessler (trans) and Raymond Queneau

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9780979513749, titled "Les Ziaux (Eyeseas): Selected Poems" | Black Widow Pr, August 15, 2008, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: 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.

Ejercicios de estilo/ Style Exercises: Version de Antonio Fernandez Ferrer/ Antonio Fernandez Ferrer Version

Product Description: Ejercicios de estilo es todo un manifiesto en contra de la separaciÃ³n tradicional entre teorÃa y prÃ¡ctica de escritura. A partir de la construcciÃ³n de 99 vaciaciones sobre la anÃ©cdota escandalosamente trivial que sirve de punto de partida, surge esta obra sorprendente que aÃºna irÃ³nÃa, ingenio y sabidurÃa retÃ³rica...read more

By Raymond Queneau

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9788437606750 | 11 edition (Catedra Ediciones, June 30, 2008), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Ejercicios de estilo es todo un manifiesto en contra de la separaciÃ³n tradicional entre teorÃa y prÃ¡ctica de escritura.

Elementary Morality

By Raymond Queneau and Philip Terry (trans)

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9781857549485 | Carcanet Pr, June 30, 2008, cover price $29.95

Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70

Product Description: The first English translation of essays from one of the twentieth century's most intriguing avant-garde writersCompiled from two volumes of Raymond Queneau's essays (BÃ¢tons, chiffres et lettres and Le Voyage en GrÃ¨ce), 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...read more

By Raymond Queneau and Jordan Stump (trans)

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9780252031878 | Univ of Illinois Pr, October 15, 2007, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: The first English translation of essays from one of the twentieth century's most intriguing avant-garde writersCompiled from two volumes of Raymond Queneau's essays (BÃ¢tons, chiffres et lettres and Le Voyage en GrÃ¨ce), 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.

Bark Tree

RARE. 1971. Paperback. 281 pages.

By Raymond Queneau

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9780714501086 | Riverrun Pr, March 30, 2009, cover price $11.95

9780714501079 | River Run Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: RARE.

Pierrot Mon Ami

Product Description: Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneauâs finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young manâs initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation. From his short-lived job at a Paris amusement park where he helps to raise womenâs skirts to the delight of an unruly audience, to his frustrated and unsuccessful love of Yvonne, to his failed assignment to care for the tomb of the shadowy Prince Luigi of Poldevia, Pierrot stumbles about, nearly immune to the effects of duplicity...read more

By Raymond Queneau

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9781564783974 | Dalkey Archive Pr, March 30, 2005, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneauâs finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young manâs initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation.

9780916583408 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation.

9782070362264 | Gallimard, June 1, 1972, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Book by Queneau, Raymond

Heartsnatcher

By Stanley Chapman (trans), Raymond Queneau (foreword by), John Sturrock (introduced by) and Boris Vian

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9781564782991 | 1 edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 2003), cover price $14.95

Witch Grass

Product Description: Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow comes to life, precipitating a series of comic run-ins among a range of disreputable and heartwarming characters living on the sleazy outskirts of the city of lights...read more

By Raymond Queneau and Barbara Wright (introduced by)

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9781590170311 | New York Review of Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he?

Sunday of Life

By Raymond Queneau

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9780811206457, titled "The Sunday of Life" | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1977, cover price $5.95

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9780714536415, titled "The Sunday of Life" | Riverrun Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $13.95

9780811206464 | New Directions, April 1, 1977, cover price $18.95

Zazie in the Metro

Product Description: Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. 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 that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute...read more

By Raymond Queneau

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9780714538723 | Riverrun Pr, September 1, 1982, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: fiction, tr Barbara Wright

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9780142180044 | Penguin Classics, November 1, 2001, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle.

9780714539232 | Riverrun Pr, September 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: fiction, tr Barbara Wright

Stories and Remarks

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By Marc Lowenthal and Raymond Queneau

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9780803238015 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $50.00

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9780803288522, titled "Stories & Remarks" | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $15.00

Saint Glinglin

Product Description: Queneau's tragicomic masterpiece which retells in an array of styles the primal Freudian myth of sons killing the father.Queneau satirizes anthropology, folklore, philosophy, and epistemology while spinning a story as appealing as a fairy tale about a land where it never rains and a bizarre festival is held every Saint Glinglin's Day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Raymond Queneau and James Sallis (introduced by)

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9781564782304 | Dalkey Archive Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Queneau's tragicomic masterpiece which retells in an array of styles the primal Freudian myth of sons killing the father.

Odile

Product Description: First published in France in 1937, this brilliant, moving novel is about the devastating psychological effects of war, about falling in love, about politics subverting human relationships, and about life in Paris during the early 1930s amid intellecturals and artists whose activities range from writing for radical magazines to conjuring the ghost of Lenin in seances...read more

By Raymond Queneau

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9780916583347 | Dalkey Archive Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: “Even though I can’t remember my childhood, my memory being as if ravaged by some disaster, there nevertheless remains a series of images from the time before my birth .

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9781564782090 | Dalkey Archive Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: First published in France in 1937, this brilliant, moving novel is about the devastating psychological effects of war, about falling in love, about politics subverting human relationships, and about life in Paris during the early 1930s amid intellecturals and artists whose activities range from writing for radical magazines to conjuring the ghost of Lenin in seances.

Children of Clay

Product Description: Book by Queneau, Raymond

By Raymond Queneau and Madeleine Velguth (trans)

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9781557132864 | Sun & Moon Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Queneau, Raymond

The Last Days: A Novel

Product Description: The Last Days is Raymond Queneau's autobiographical novel of Parisian student life in the 1920s: Vincent Tuquedenne tries to reconcile his love for reading with the sterility of studying as he hopes to study his way out of the petite bourgeoisie to which he belongs...read more

By Vivian Kogan (introduced by), Raymond Queneau and Barbara Wright (trans)

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9781564781406 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The Last Days is Raymond Queneau's autobiographical novel of Parisian student life in the 1920s: Vincent Tuquedenne tries to reconcile his love for reading with the sterility of studying as he hopes to study his way out of the petite bourgeoisie to which he belongs.

Oulipo Laboratory: Texts from the Bibliotheque Oulipienne

By Claude Berge, Italo Calvino, Paul Fournel, Jacques Jouet, Harry Mathews and Raymond Queneau (editor)

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9780947757892 | Small Pr Distribution, February 1, 1996, cover price $15.99

Exercices De Style

By Raymond Queneau

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9782070373635 | Gallimard, June 1, 1995, cover price $16.95

Pierrot Mon Ami ; And, Saint Glinglin: Two Novels

By Raymond Queneau

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9781564780591 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $13.95

The Last Days

Product Description: "profound, complex, likable" novel, tr B Wright

By Raymond Queneau

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9780916583620 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $19.95

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9780916583637 | Dalkey Archive Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: "profound, complex, likable" novel, tr B Wright

Pounding the Pavements, Beating the Bushes and Other Pataphysical Poems

Poems, in English translation as well as the original French, deal with mortality, memory, aging, language, and modern life

By Raymond Queneau and Teo Savory

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9780877751724 | Unicorn Pr, April 1, 1985, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Poems, in English translation as well as the original French, deal with mortality, memory, aging, language, and modern life

The Blue Flowers

Duke d'Auge, a thirteenth century nobleman, and Cidrolin, a modern Frenchman living on a barge in the Seine, appear to exist only in each other's dreams

By Raymond Queneau and Barbara Wright (trans)

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9780811209458 | New Directions, April 1, 1985, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Duke d'Auge, a thirteenth century nobleman, and Cidrolin, a modern Frenchman living on a barge in the Seine, appear to exist only in each other's dreams

We Always Treat Women Too Well: A Novel

A darkly humorous satire dramatizes events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin

By Raymond Queneau

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9780811207928 | New Directions, September 1, 1981, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A darkly humorous satire dramatizes events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin

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9780811207935 | 2 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1981), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A darkly humorous satire dramatizes events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin

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