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Raymond Queneau

I lived from 1903-1976. I was from France, and am in the European category.

Raymond Queneau was born on 1903 in Le Havre, France to an ex colonial soldier named Aguste Queneau. He studied at Lycee in Le Havre and at the age of 17 he moved to Paris. He graduated from Sorbonne, Paris in 1926.



Raymond Queneau is not only a poet but also a novelist, publisher, mathematician, humourist, scholar, linguist and a detective. He was a precursor to post modernism. Queneau also wrote some lyrics some of which were very popular in the fifties. His poems are a mixture of classical epic poetry, science/speculation os a stapledonian scale, and humour. In almost everyhting he wrote he was ambitious but tried to be light hearted.



Queneau’s novel “Zazie dans le metro” written in 1959 was internationally well known and it was made into a film in 1960. The film was directed byu Louise Malle and was a great success. Queneau used colloquial speech and phonetic spellings in his novels and poems.  



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    Why has no one ever sung the rue Galilee
    rue Galilée full of dahlias
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  • Frankness: Wedded Sournesses
    I am as a spitting who has dwelt
    Within his heave of heaves, and I have felt
    12 lines
  • Cleanliness
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    The little pigeons full of whimsicrap
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  • The Cell
    Words scrawled dense on the cell wall
    by the only man it ever held:
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  • The Ministry of Words
    Poets were at the root of it
    and to the women who name things
    14 lines
  • The Department of Fulfilment
    There was never any doubt
    that his oratorio would start the world ablaze,
    13 lines
  • Falcons
    The falcons break their dandies
    And leave the printed lazurite,
    8 lines
  • Blood Kin
    We never swore blood kin
    thumb to thumb.
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  • Night
    Night slinks from ditches,
    flows among the grass,
    8 lines
  • With Words
    With words we say
    There are many things
    10 lines
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