Hitting the Streets by Queneau, Raymond

Hitting the Streets (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847771575)

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Hitting the Streets by Queneau, Raymond

Hitting the Streets

$19.95
Hitting the Streets by Queneau, Raymond

Hitting the Streets

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Taxi drivers, street sweepers, a bouquiniste, unsuccessful prostitutes, a menaced bicycle rider, noisy children, an old woman shunted aside in a crowd, and some disgruntled animals at the zoo populate these poems. Unreeling like a series of clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, the book is wickedly funny, but it is also a bittersweet meditation on how "the river of forgetfulness carries away the city." This is the poet's love letter to Paris--a Paris that is always in the process of becoming superannuated. Rachel Galvin's lively, idiomatic version is the first complete translation available in English.

Author: Raymond Queneau
ISBN-10: 1847771572
ISBN-13: 9781847771575
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2013
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.80d
By Raymond Queneau
By Raymond Queneau
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Raymond Queneau was a novelist, philosopher, poet, mathematician, and translator, and a leading figure in 20th-century French literary life. He cofounded OuLiPo, a group of experimental writers and mathematicians whose members included Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, in 1960, and it is the longest running literary group in French history. Rachel Galvin is a poet, translator, editor, and academic who teaches comparative literature at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of a collection of poems, Pulleys & Locomotion. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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