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
A few of the affairs were with well-known writers, men like Elias Canetti and Raymond Queneau.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2016
Queneau, best known for his novel Zazie dans le métro, was part of the surrealist movement in the 1920s, later becoming a publisher for Gallimard.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2010
For one thing, Author Queneau, a onetime surrealist deeply concerned with language, tries to close the gap between literary and spoken speech in the Zazie novel, runs words together and sometimes employs phonetic spellings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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