ISBN 9781564783974 | 1564783979 Textbooks - "Pierrot Mon Ami French Literature Series" by Raymond Raymond Queneau Barbara Wright Inez Hedges Queneau Raymond Wright Barbara Translator Hedges Inez AFT

Authors: Raymond - Raymond Queneau - Barbara Wright - Inez Hedges - Queneau - Raymond / Wright - Ba…
ISBN 10: 1564783979
ISBN 13: 9781564783974
Release: September 1, 1989
Format: Paperback (160 pages)
List Price: $11.95
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Tags: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary,

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"Pierrot Mon Ami was perhaps Queneau's masterpiece . . . This unlikely guru exerted a major influence on a new avant-garde (notably on Georges Perec, who was devoted to him). But if there was a sage in Queneau he never imparted his wisdom more touchingly than in Pierrot Mon Ami."—Times Literary SupplementPierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau's finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man's initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation. From his short-lived job at a Paris amusement park where he helps to raise women's skirts to the delight of an unruly audience, to his frustrated and unsuccessful love of Yvonne, to his failed assignment to care for the tomb of the shadowy Prince Luigi of Poldevia, Pierrot stumbles about, nearly immune to the effects of duplicity. This "innocent" implies how his story, at almost every turn, undermines, upsets, and plays upon our expectations, leaving us with more questions than answers, and doing so in a gloriously skewed style (admirably re-created by Barbara Wright, Queneau's principle translator).

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Pierrot Mon Ami (French Literature Series)