Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Blue FlowersCondition: NewISBN-10: 0811227928EAN: 9780811227926ISBN: 9780811227926Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/21/2018Description: The Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d’Auge as he rages through history—about 700 years of it—refusing to crusade, clobbering his king with a cannon, and dabbling in alchemy. But is it just a coincidence that the Duke appears only when Cidrolin is dozing? And vice versa? As Raymond Queneau explains: “There is an old Chinese saying: ‘I dream that I am a butterfly and pray there is a butterfly dreaming he is me.’ The same can be said of the characters in this novel—those who live in the past dream of those who live in the modern era—and those who live in the modern era dream of those who live in the past.” Channeling Villon and Céline, Queneau attempts to bring the language of the French streets into common literary usage, and his mad wordplays, puns, bawdy jokes, and anachronistic wackiness have been kept amazingly and glitteringly intact by the incomparable translator Barbara Wright.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 135mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 241gAuthor: Raymond QueneauTranslator: Barbara WrightContributor: Barbara Wright (Translated by)Genre: Poetry & DramaRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Blue Flowers
Title: The Blue Flowers
ISBN-10: 0811227928
EAN: 9780811227926
ISBN: 9780811227926
Release Date: 09/21/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Barbara Wright
Contributor: Barbara Wright (Translated by)
Book Title: Blue Flowers
Number of Pages: 244 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Absurdist, General, Literary
Genre: Poetry, Fiction
Item Weight: 8.5 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Raymond Queneau
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
