Queneau
Britishnoun
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And Raymond Queneau said the world is not what it seems—but it isn’t anything else, either.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
Marty calls commissions like this an exercice de style, after the classic work by author Raymond Queneau in which he tells the same story 99 different ways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2018
Mr. Queneau took “La Place de l’Étoile” to his publisher, Gallimard, who has published Mr. Modiano ever since.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2015
"Anything I shall ever write will owe so much, so much, to you," wrote Murdoch to Queneau, a married French novelist, poet and publisher with whom she corresponded between 1946 and 1975.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2010
Raymond Queneau, 73, influential avant-garde author whose linguistic pyrotechnics on everyday themes helped transform modern French fiction; in Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
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