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Zazie dans le Metro (French Edition)

French Edition by Raymond Queneau (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 435 ratings
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French novel, great for more advanced high school and college students.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0828862346
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    978-0828862349
  3. Publisher
    French & European Pubns
  4. Publication date
    October 1, 1973
  5. Language
    French
  6. Print length
    392 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ French & European Pubns (October 1, 1973)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ French
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0828862346
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0828862349
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
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Elise
5.0 out of 5 stars Great quality
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2014
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This book is in great shape and I can't wait to read it. I placed my order on February 27, 2014 and I live on the east coast (USA) so it got here on Wednesday which I think is pretty quick for a book coming from so far.
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darragh o'donoghue
5.0 out of 5 stars Alice in Paris.
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2001
Like his hero Lewis Carroll, Raymond Queneau was a polyglot, and a mathematician with a love of patterns, forms and games. He wrote a study of dog language in Carroll's 'Sylvie and Bruno', and 'Zazie' is his update of Alice to the Parisian Wonderland of the late 1950s, although it is not clear whether Zazie is an anti-Alice, bringing chaos to a normal society, or whether she is a precocious, sensible, curious (if foul-mouthed) child faced with a blinkingly unstable universe: Zazie is notably passive in the book's final third, when the linguistic, philosophical, temporal, narrative, spatial and sexual dissolutions collapse into a frenzy of barmy physical violence.
the book as a whole sees Rabelais and Diderot rewriting the Arabian Nights. Each chapter plays like a Ionesco drama, a sustained, rhythmic dialogue where the disparity between bizarre event and the disintegrating attempts of language to express it, creates a gap where logic contracts, explodes and comes back together in an hilarious anti-logic. Not only are the borders of dream and reality, plausibility and fantasy, role play and identity broken down, but Queneau's narrative procedures - at once Joycean in its plenitude, and startling in its gaping ellipses - further confuse the reader.
'Zazie' is Queneau's most 'plausible' novel, in that much of its fun lies in its Parisian locales, and its comedy at the expense of romantic cliches about the city; but it is also a true Surrealist novel, both in breaking down the normality of the real, and in asserting that the only way you can get what you want is to dream.
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M. Allen Greenbaum
5.0 out of 5 stars Strange and Funny!
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2000
Raymond Queneau has written a strange but tantalizing little novel about an adolescent named Zazie... she has a New York accent, and the mouth of a Henry Miller. Her misadventures in Paris, prove challenging to those around her,and amusing to the reader. It's am amusing collage of seemimgly misplaced dialogue and eccentric characters, yet is easy to read and laugh with.
(Note: Queneau is, I think, an underappreciated genius. You can find out more about him by looking up the book "The OULIPO COMPENDIUM" here at Amazon, which contains his extraordinary "One-hundred-trillion sonnets." "Oulipans: rats who build the labyrinth from which they plan to escape" -- Raymond Queneau).
Zazie is less of a labyrinth and more of a amusement park, a good introduction to this imaginative writer. Probably not for those easily offended (nor is "Zazie" herself), but a little treasure worth looking for.
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Marie France BOISSIERES
5.0 out of 5 stars Bon livre, devenu un classique.
Reviewed in France on April 30, 2024
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A lire. Écrit par un grand auteur. Ludique, témoignage d'une époque, et toujours d'actualité.
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Ivan A.
5.0 out of 5 stars Libro simpatico e divertente
Reviewed in Italy on December 30, 2022
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Libro divertente x chi conosce bene la lingua francese
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Antonio Miguel
5.0 out of 5 stars divertido
Reviewed in Spain on September 23, 2017
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precioso, ideal para trabajar con los alumnos en clase, especialmente en lengua francesa, le gusta mucho y lo uso mucho
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Ciara 5
5.0 out of 5 stars great fun!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2017
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Based on one of the funniest books ever written...great fun!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Raymond Queneauの歴史的実験的渾身作
Reviewed in Japan on December 12, 2015
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この本は、「話」で読ませる本ではない。反小説と銘打ってもいいくらいだ。そのくらい、「言葉」そのものの問題を、ギャグを主に通じて扱っている。同じ作者の「文体練習」の連作とも言える。
人類と言葉というと大げさだけど、すくなくとも、フランス人とフランス語という問題を、ギャグを媒介にして問題提起している力作。だから、日本語訳にもっとも向いていない本といえるだろう。それを逆手に取った「文体練習」の日本語訳も出て買って読みましたけどね。その「文体練習」とセットで読まないと実はよく本質が見えてこない本です。
現代にも、「言葉」そのものの問題提起として、どんどん共通テーマの小説が出てきていいと思うが、日本人作家でこういうのあるのか、私は寡聞にして知らない。
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