Witch Grass (previously titled The Bark Tree) is a philosophical farce, an epic comedy, a mesmerizing book about the daily grind that is an enchantment itself. Review "A supreme example of the novel poem."Author: Raymond Queneau. Saturday, . Current Read - Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau as translated by Barbara Wright. Posted by SWeeP at AM 3 comments. 2 days ago · MB JPG. Le Chiendent [Witchgrass] by Raymond Queneau Anonymous 11/26/21 (Fri) No. I present to you the first ever soijak exchange. It appears soijaking predates /lit/ and the invention of the soijak. 1/2.
WITCH GRASS RAYMOND QUENEAU () was born in the French town of Le Havre and educated at the Sorbonne. He performed his military service in Morocco. An early association with the Surrealists ended in , and after completing a scholarly study of literary madmen of the nineteenth century for which he was unable to find a publisher. Raymond Queneau (French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ kəno]; 21 February - 25 October ) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), notable for his wit and cynical humour. Witch Grass (previously titled The Bark Tree) is a philosophical farce, an epic comedy, a mesmerizing book about the daily grind that is an enchantment itself. The Blue Flowers-Raymond Queneau Only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's novel.
An early association with the Surrealists ended in , and after completing a scholarly study of literary madmen of the nineteenth century for which he was unable to find a publisher, Queneau turned to fiction, writing his first novel, Le Chiendent (published as Witch Grass by NYRB Classics), in Greece in the summer of Influenced by James Joyce and Lewis Carroll, Queneau sought to reinvigorate French literature, grown feeble through formalism, with a strong dose of language as really. Witch Grass was delightful. It’s comic misadventure kept me gleefully entertained, and the way Queneau turned new plot developments into little mysteries for his reader to solve made the journey such fun. This surrealist novel is the first by Raymond Queneau, and the first of his I have read (working my way towards Zazie in the Metro which I am told I will especially like). In Witch Grass a man sitting in a cafe in Paris sees another man and wonders who he is and what his life is like. Immediately the other man comes to life and the reader is taken through this bizarre sequence of events which is often compared to Lewis Carroll in style.
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