Saint Glinglin

Informationen zum Autor Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) is acknowledged as one of the most influential of modern French writers, having helped determine the shape of twentieth-century French literature, especially in his role with the Oulipo, a group of authors that includes Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, and Harry Mathews, among others. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Queneau, Raymond Sallis Queneau, James Sallis
• Assisted by: James Sallis (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2009
• EAN: 9781564782304
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-230-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: French Literature Series
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature