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A Headbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
QUENEAU-IT-ALL
WITCH GRASS
By Raymond Queneau
New York Review Books, 313 pp., $14
Raymond Queneau essentially launched the hyper-- playful Oulipo tradition with the famed Hundred Thousand Billion Poems-a series of 10 sonnets with perfectly interchangeable lines. But by then, Queneau had put in a life's work already, including The Sunday of Life, infused with the author's peculiar mix of metaphysics and melancholic sweetness; and the hilarious, astounding Exercises in Style, which retells one mundane anecdote in 99 different manners. He had also ...
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