Essays Tagged: "Zazie in the Metro"

Zazie in the Metro- Raymond Queneau

Zazie in the Metro seems the most absurd term to describe Queneau's lexical choices; profane, irreve ... inject a risqué association where it may least be expected, Queneau, the author of the novel Zazie in the Metro (1959), describes a heating machine that is also hot, if not hot to trot. As the ... s the critique of the author launched by structuralists such as Barthes (who shortly would champion Zazie in the Metro), Queneau's embrace of the aesthetic of constraint would find its ultimate manife ...

(2 pages) 1389 0 0.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers