Pierrot Mon Ami.(Book Review)

Hollins Critic | October 1, 1988| | Copyright

Pierrot Mon Ami. By Raymond Queneau. Trans. by Barbara White. The Dalkey Archive Press. $20.00 (h.b.)

Probably our most significant writers, our "cousins," are those who recognize the limits of perception and language. Surely Queneau is one of these.

Pierrot, the "hero" of this early novel, is assaulted by banal or odd conversations, perverse significances, amusing coincidences, mysterious double-talk. Reality for him has little meaning except for its crazy unexpectedness.

But Pierrot seems unharmed by the chaos. He lives in his own mind. He ...

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