Raymond Queneau was a poet and writer whose intense interest in mathematics flavored many of his works. He cofounded an artistic group called Ouvroir de litterature potentielle (Oulipo--Workshop of Po...
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Raymond Queneau has been celebrated as one of the most amusing and versatile French writers of the twentieth century. He was a poet, novelist, critic, editor, playwright, filmmaker, philosopher, mathe...
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Raymond Queneau's work is difficult to classify. Set to music by the Frères Jacques, his Exercices de style (1947; translated as Exercises in Style, 1958) earned him a reputation as something ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Alter
Queneau's Exercices de style (1947) is an intriguing and at times immensely amusing book, but it is just what its title implies, a set of exercises; and to sugges...
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Critical Essay by Robert Henkels, Jr.
Raymond Queneau remains unclassifiable. It is as fruitless to group him with a single literary school as it is to reduce one of his intentionally bad puns to a si...
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Critical Essay by Robert W. Greene
Morale élémentaire, while it holds few surprises for the reader familiar with Raymond Queneau's earlier writings, represents nonetheless an impo...
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Critical Essay by Louisa E. Jones
In all his novels, Raymond Queneau questions the process of history. Individual lives are drawn into historical disasters…. Les Fleurs bleues stands out as one...
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Critical Essay by Michael Wood
Queneau confesses his debt to Céline and Joyce, but we probably ought to situate him closer to Nabokov than to either. There is a similar word-play, of course, bu...
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Critical Essay by Webster Schott
Nathaniel Hawthorne said that happiness is like a butterfly that evades you if you chase it and may light on you if you sit down. The Sunday of Life is a novel about a...
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Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau
