Raymond Queneau has been celebrated as one of the most amusing and versatile French writers of the twentieth century. He was a poet, novelist, critic, editor, playwright, filmmaker, philosopher, mathe...
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Raymond Queneau's work is difficult to classify. Set to music by the Frères Jacques, his Exercices de style (1947; translated as Exercises in Style, 1958) earned him a reputation as something ...
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Raymond Queneau was a poet and writer whose intense interest in mathematics flavored many of his works. He cofounded an artistic group called Ouvroir de litterature potentielle (Oulipo--Workshop of Po...
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