Queneau, Raymond, 1903-1976

Biennale du Livre d'Artist e, 5eme / Nannucci M ; Queneau R ; Cueco H ; Harms D ; Karasik M ; Erro., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29510-30875

Dates: 1997

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Exercices de Style / Queneau, Raymond ; Carelman, Jacques ; Massin., 1963

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Identifier: CC-42583-44599

Dates: 1963

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Exercices de Style / Queneau, Raymond ; Faucheux P., 1956

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Identifier: CC-31872-33395

Scope and Contents The book includes thirteen typographical interpretations by Pierre Faucheux that are presented as end papers and fold-out pages. Queneau's texts are composed of clever rhymes and word-plays.The story is of a twentysomething bus rider with a long, skinny neck and a goofy hat accuses another passenger of trampling his feet; he then grabs an empty seat. Later, in a park, a friend encourages the same man to reorganize the buttons on his overcoat. In Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, this determinedly pointless scenario unfolds 99 times in twice as many pages. These terse variations on a theme are a wry lesson in creativity. The story is told as an official letter, as a blurb for a novel, as a sonnet, and in "Opera English." It's told onomatopoetically, philosophically, telegraphically, and mathematically. It is a profound exploration into the possibilities of language." Gary Jakaitis reviewed the English translation: In the 1930s, Raymond Queneau attended a performance of...

Dates: 1956

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Exercices de Style / Queneau, Raymond ; Faucheux P., 1956

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Identifier: CC-32114-33653

Scope and Contents The book includes thirteen typographical interpretations by Pierre Faucheux that are presented as end papers and fold-out pages. Queneau's texts are composed of clever rhymes and word-plays. The book includes thirteen typographical interpretations by Pierre Faucheux that are presented as end papers and fold-out pages. Queneau's texts are composed of clever rhymes and word-plays.The story is of a twentysomething bus rider with a long, skinny neck and a goofy hat accuses another passenger of trampling his feet; he then grabs an empty seat. Later, in a park, a friend encourages the same man to reorganize the buttons on his overcoat. In Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, this determinedly pointless scenario unfolds 99 times in twice as many pages. These terse variations on a theme are a wry lesson in creativity. The story is told as an official letter, as a blurb for a novel, as a sonnet, and in "Opera English." It's told onomatopoetically, philosophically, telegraphically, and...

Dates: 1956

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books