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Raymond Queneau. Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays 1928-70.(Book review)
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RAYMOND QUENEAU. LETTERS, NUMBERS, FORMS: ESSAYS 1928-70. TRANS. JORDAN STUMP. URBANA AND CHICAGO: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS, 2007. 251 PP. PAPER: $45.00.
"Few if any twentieth-century writers are as present in the twenty-first-century French novel as Queneau," argues Jordan Stump in the introduction to this volume. Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) was a writer's writer, a figure who influenced at least two generations of French writers during his lifetime, and whose vision of literature and its potential continues to shape progressive literature in key ways, more than thirty ...
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