Hitting the Streets (Poetry in Translation) - Softcover

Raymond Queneau; Rachel Galvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847771572 ISBN 13: 9781847771575

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Unreeling like a series of film clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, Raymond Queneau's Hitting the Streets is wickedly funny. It is also a bittersweet meditation on the effects of time and memory. Hitting the Streets is Queneau's love letters to Paris - a Paris that is always in the process of becoming obsolete. This lively, idiomatic version is the first complete translation available in English.

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About the Author

Raymond Queneau was born in Normandy in 1903 and studied at the Sorbonne before military service and a career working for the Gallimard publishing house. A novelist, philosopher, poet, mathematician and translator, he was a leading figure in twentieth-century French literary life, a prolific writer whose work touches on many of the major cultural movements of his time, from Surrealism to the experimental writing of the nouveau roman. In 1959 he published his best-known work, the novel Zazie dans le metro, which was a popular success both as a book and in the film adaptation by Louis Malle. In 1960 Queneau co-founded the 'Workshop for Potential Literature' or OuLiPo, a group of writers and scientists exploring the interactions between mathematics and literary forms. The group has included among its members Italo Calvino, Georges Perec and Harry Mathews, and still thrives today. Queneau died in 1976.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847771572
• ISBN 13: 9781847771575
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224