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
Brown’s technique owes much to the experimental French writer Raymond Queneau and to Barnes’s “Flaubert’s Parrot.”
From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2018
She was writing to Queneau at a time when the novel in Britain was perceived to be lagging behind and parochial.
From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2010
Critics have compared Zazie's creator�Raymond Queneau, a distinguished poet and chief reader at the Gallimard publishing house�to Flaubert, Stendhal, Hugo and Hegel.
From Time Magazine Archive
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