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	Raymond Queneau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Raymond Queneau (February 21, 1903 – October 25, 1976) was a French poet and novelist.
		Queneau was drafted in 1939 but demobilized in 1940, and through the remainder of World War II, he and his family lived with the painter Elie Lascaux in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat.
		Queneau spent much of his life working for French publisher Gallimard, where he began as a reader in 1938, rose to be general secretary, and eventually became director of l’Encyclopédie de la Pléiade in 1956.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raymond_Queneau (774 words)

	The Lyric Encyclopedia of Raymond Queneau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Queneau (1903-1976) was a poet and novelist who became director of the Encyclopédie Pléiade, and co-founded the OULIPO literary workshop.
		Although his humour, playfulness and forward-looking views led him briefly to become a member of the Surrealist movement in the 1920s, he could never be reconciled with their rejection of reason and scientific knowledge in favour of the caprices of the unconscious.
		Queneau himself made contributions to the field of mathematics called combinatorics, but it is more than his curiosity or sympathy with science which leads Hale to describe him as a lyric encyclopaedist.
	www.nous.org.uk /Hale.html (325 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Raymond Queneau was born at Le Havre, the son of Auguste Queneau, an ex-colonial soldier, and Jeanne Mignot.
		In 1934 Queneau married Janine Kahn; they had one son, who in 1938 became a reader for Gallimard, and from the late 1940s the principal editor of encyclopaedias and histories of literature published in the Pléiade series.
		Queneau also collaborated with a number of 'New Wave' film directors and Juliette Greco made popular his song 'Si tu t'imagines.' In 1951 Queneau was elected to the Goncourt Academy.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/queneau_raymond.html (1043 words)

	Children of Clay - Raymond Queneau
		Queneau presents a large parade of of characters, colourful locals, the declining family Claye (once wealthy, now having lost their fortune), as well as the many "literary lunatics".
		Queneau's ending -- the fate of Chambernac's epic -- nicely brings the book to a conclusion, the author stepping in, having found this unusual way of saving his work.
		French author Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) is one of the most influential figures in modern French literature.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/queneaur/clay.htm (860 words)

	Alibris: Raymond Queneau
		Queneau's 1947 novel didn't originally have his name on it: it was supposedly written in Gaelic by an Irishwoman named Sally Mara, then translated into French by her French teacher.
		Raymond Queneau (1903-76), a member of the Oulipo group of experimental French writers, was known for his unclassifiable prose works.
		Raymond Queneau's first novel, published in 1933, is the circuitous story of a bank clerk whose mind-numbing job has stifled his identity.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Raymond_Queneau (781 words)

	Scriptorium - Raymond Queneau
		Raymond Queneau's mind could have been described as a room with a fireplace, where a group of Club Stories characters gathered together and talked endlessly among themselves -- a mathematician, a humorist, a scholar, a linguist, a poet, a detective.
		Queneau was born in Le Havre in 1903 and went to Paris when he was 17.
		Queneau used to say that there are only two kinds of novel: the odysseys and the iliads.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/queneau.html (1706 words)

	Raymond Queneau: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Raymond Queneau (February 21, 1903 - October 25, 1976) was a French (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) poet (A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)) and novelist (Someone who writes novels).
		He briefly joined the Surrealist (An artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism) s, but found that their approach of letting the unconscious mind create did not suit him.
		After the founding of the Oulipo in 1960, Queneau turned further to mathematics (A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement) as a source of inspiration.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/raymond_queneau.htm (430 words)

	Symposium Examines and Celebrates French Writer Raymond Queneau
		Considered to be one of the 20th century's most original and prolific French writers, Queneau (1903-1976) was a poet, novelist, critic, editor, translator, playwright, philosopher, mathematician and co-founder of the esteemed and still active group of writers called Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Oulipo).
		Queneau is best known for "Exercices de style," (1947) a work that retells the same story in 99 different linguistic styles, and "Zazie dans le metro," (1959) a novel that was made into a film by director Louis Malle in 1960.
		For his achievements, Queneau was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1951 and the Académie de l'Humour in 1952.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /news/press/2005/queneau.html (549 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Raymond Queneau and the Oulipo
		The French poet, amateur mathematician and general all-round scholar Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) was a rare 'Renaissance man' in an age of specialisation.
		Queneau, then, was hardly an aesthetic revolutionary - the term 'avant-garde' (ie, 'vanguard') hardly seems appropriate for one who saw nothing wrong with existing forms and indeed asked for nothing better than to use and develop them.
		Queneau estimated that it would take a person, reading one sonnet per minute eight hours a day two hundred days per year, approximately a million centuries to finish reading through these extraordinary poems-to-be in their entirety.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A352342 (1745 words)

	CONTEXT: Barbara Wright Reading Raymond Queneau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And while Queneau's novels always have plenty of plot, and plenty of believable (if unusual) characters, they are also chockablock full of the erudite--even serious--subjects in which Queneau took a passionate interest, but for which many of us, alas, still retain the distaste implanted in us by some of our schoolteachers.
		Queneau is that rarest of rare phenomena in an age of specialists and watertight compartments of culture: a truly universal, encyclopedic mind, a poet who is also a philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, the editor of the brilliantly conceived attempt at presenting a complete synthesis of twentieth-century culture, the Encyclopedie de la Pleiade.
		Queneau forged his own very conscious theory--and practice--of the novel; he knew perfectly well what he was doing, and why he was doing it.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no9/wright.html (2672 words)

	Raymond Queneau Biography / Biography of Raymond Queneau World of Mathematics Biography
		Raymond Queneau was a poet and writer whose intense interest in mathematics flavored many of his works.
		The son of hat-makers, Queneau was born in La Havre, France on February 21, 1903.
		Queneau attended the city's elementary and secondary schools, graduating in 1920, and in 1921 began studying at the University of Paris.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-raymond-queneau-wom (237 words)

	The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Charity begins at home. (Raymond Queneau)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Raymond Queneau reminds other writers they have not done their homework.
		The intricacies of Queneau's works will never be completely deciphered, but they encourage the reader to pay particular attention to every detail.
		Each time I read a novel by Raymond Queneau I remind myself that I have yet to do my homework: the author's acknowledged spiritual masters--the Gnostics, Hegel, and Kojeve (whose lectures on Hegel were compiled by Queneau himself)--remain on my shelves unread.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20640711&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (212 words)

	BOOKFORUM \| fall 2003
		Through a series of what Queneau's narrator calls "carefully prepared chances," they begin to frequent a workers' eatery in a grim industrial suburb of Paris, where they become embroiled in a collective obsession with the vast treasure that may or may not lie concealed in the hovel of a nearby junk dealer.
		Queneau's novel claims to have been written in Gaelic by a young Irishwoman, Sally Mara, and translated into French by one Michel Presle, her former French tutor (Queneau's name appears nowhere on the novel's first edition).
		To be sure, there is much in Queneau that defies translation: The title Witch Grass, for instance, is a necessarily partial rendering of Queneau's Le chiendent (which does indeed refer to the name of a particularly tenacious sort of weed but also to a slang term for an obstacle, a hitch, a stumbling block).
	www.bookforum.com /archive/fall_03/stump.html (2484 words)

	Queneau, Raymond on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Queneau is best known for his manipulations of style and language and his use of street slang in literary works.
		Wordplay and the contextual circle in Queneau's Petite Cosmogonie Portative.(Critical Essay)
		Rentrée au lycée Queneau de Villeneuve-d'Ascq, près de Lille, le 2 septembre 2004 Au lycée Raymond Queneau de Villeneuve-d.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Q/Queneau.asp (383 words)

	Eccentric Aristocrats Awash in Wordplay / New translation of Queneau novel captures the French surrealist's literary ...
		Queneau, who died in 1976, is the joker in the deck of French literature.
		Queneau's Henry Chambernac quotes an earlier collector of impossible theories, the physician and psychiatrist Leuret, who remarks in his ``Psychological Fragments on Madness'': ``I was unable, try as I might, to distinguish by its nature alone.
		Queneau fans should add this new edition to their collections at once, and those new to this genius of perversity would do well to start here.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/08/02/RV82413.DTL (736 words)

	village voice > books > Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau by Joshua Clover
		Raymond Queneau essentially launched the hyper-playful Oulipo tradition with the famed Hundred Thousand Billion Poems—a series of 10 sonnets with perfectly interchangeable lines.
		But by then, Queneau had put in a life's work already, including The Sunday of Life, infused with the author's peculiar mix of metaphysics and melancholic sweetness; and the hilarious, astounding Exercises in Style, which retells one mundane anecdote in 99 different manners.
		His, and Queneau's, idea prefigures existentialism and the "new novel" movement, happily theoretical—until it reappears in sacrificial bride Ernestine's deathbed speech.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0313/clover.php (380 words)

	The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Canis Major: introducing Raymond Queneau.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Raymond Queneau, 1903-1976, was considered a writer's writer.
		Queneau's work is distinctive because he constantly subverts conventions with variety and experimentation in language.
		On 29 October 1976, one day after the funeral of his friend and mentor Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec wrote the opening...
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	Who is this Raymond Queneau? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) is one of the most curious literary personalities of the 20th century.
		Queneau, who came to favor strict, rule-governed writing, was fundamentally at odds with the Surrealists, who favored surrender of the consciousness to the unconsciousness.
		An other, more obscure of math in writing is the Chronogram: the letters I,V, X, L, C, D, and M are of course the Roman numerals, and so when they appear, it can be designed so that the sentences they are in have numerical values, most often years.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~luriea/aboutraymond.html (540 words)

	Biography of Raymond Queneau
		However, with a charecteristic piece of lateral thinking, Queneau incorporated it into his novel Les enfants du Limon as an unpublishable manuscript by a character called Chambernac, thereby getting it into print.
		One of Queneau's main delights is playing with language and Zazie is exemplary, employing phonetic spelling and phraseology.
		Another way in which Raymond Queneau derives humour from his use of language is through repetition.
	www.biogs.com /famous/queneauraymond.html (506 words)

	The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry - Collection Record (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Queneau was a polymath, with interests and accomplishments as a novelist, poet, linguist and mathematician.
		At the same time, Queneau was exploring the Pataphysical, however, he was also serving as Director of the prestigious "Encyclopedie de la Pleiade", thus combining the whimsical with the serious.
		A decade later, Queneau was a founder of "OuLiPo" (an acronym for "Ouvroir de Litterature Poetentielle" or "Workshop for Potential Literature").
	www.rediscov.com /sacknerarchives/ShowItem.aspx?1029200443002~33395 (512 words)

	Raymond Queneau Papers
		The Raymond Queneau Collection includes manuscripts, research notes, correspondence, programs, posters, offprints, clippings, and third-party works documenting the professional life of the French writer.
		In this series is a collection of letters, entitled by Queneau "Hétéroclites, " addressed to Gallimard staff by writers hoping to have manuscripts (sometimes included) published by that house.
		Also here are printed and manuscript materials removed from books that were in Queneau's library; the items have been sleeved with a photocopy of the title page of the book from which they were taken.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/queneau.html (776 words)

	Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The French poet, Raymond Queneau, once published a book entitled _Cent mille milliards de poemes_, which consisted of a sonnet on each of ten pages.
		Monsieur Queneau published a book with 10 sonnets, but each page was cut into horizontal strips so that one line was on each strip.
		THEOREM: If Raymond Queneau had published ten Limericks instead of ten sonnets, he would have had to call it "Cent mille de poemes." I hope this clears things up for you.
	mathforum.org /library/drmath/view/56211.html (404 words)

	Raymond Queneau -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		After working as a reporter for L'Intransigeant (1936–38), Queneau became a reader for the prestigious Encyclopédie de la Pléiade, a scholarly edition of past and present classical authors, and by 1955 was its director.
		From Queneau's Surrealist period in the 1920s he retained a taste for verbal juggling, a tendency toward fl humour, and a derisive posture toward authority.
		The Canadian-American actor Raymond Massey became widely known to theater and movie audiences in the United States for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in Robert Sherwood's ‘Abe Lincoln in Illinois'.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9062232 (895 words)

	NYRB: Raymond Queneau
		Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) was born in the French town of Le Havre and educated at the Sorbonne.
		An early association with the Surrealists ended in 1929, and after completing a scholarly study of literary madmen of the nineteenth century for which he was unable to find a publisher, Queneau turned to fiction, writing his first novel, Le Chiendent (published as Witch Grass by NYRB Classics), in Greece in the summer of 1932.
		Queneau was the editor of the Encyclopédie de la Pléiade as well as a fine poet, whose lyric "Si tu t'imagines" was a hit for the celebrated postwar chanteuse Juliette Gréco.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/9093 (224 words)

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		Raymond Queneau's One Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets (Cent Mille Milliards de poèmes) is one of the canonical Oulipian texts.
		This remarkable work consists of 14 groups of 10 lines of poetry each; the groups are ordered and the lines written such that one may select one line from the first group, one line from the second group, and so on until 14 lines are selected.
		What's more, the very first one of those sonnets is invariably the most "natural" one, as it is the first one any reader reads, and the only one that is at all easy to read without fumbling through a small forest of sonnet-shavings.
	www.growndodo.com /wordplay/oulipo/10^14sonnets.html (441 words)

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