Contents: Pictograms -- The rat, the vine, and the thief -- The air and the song -- Intellectual fashion -- Written in 1937 -- Technique of the novel -- The unfinished symphony -- What is art? -- Plus and minus -- Wealth and limit -- Humor and its victims -- De Jean Coste and L'expérience poétique -- Lyricism and poetry -- Strange tastes -- Myth and imposture -- On unrecognized geniuses -- Lost horizons -- The writer and language -- Toward reality, but what reality? -- The birth and the future of literature -- The place of mathematics in the classification of the sciences -- Readings for a front -- Academic language -- The hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo -- Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert -- People are talking -- Mosquitoes by William Faulkner -- Miró, or The prehistoric poet -- Defontenay -- Conversation with Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes -- Potential literature -- Errata -- A curious evolution of modern French

Label: Letters, numbers, forms : essays, 1928-70, Raymond Queneau ; translated by Jordan Stump

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references ( p. [231]-239) and index

Contents: Pictograms -- The rat, the vine, and the thief -- The air and the song -- Intellectual fashion -- Written in 1937 -- Technique of the novel -- The unfinished symphony -- What is art? -- Plus and minus -- Wealth and limit -- Humor and its victims -- De Jean Coste and L'expérience poétique -- Lyricism and poetry -- Strange tastes -- Myth and imposture -- On unrecognized geniuses -- Lost horizons -- The writer and language -- Toward reality, but what reality? -- The birth and the future of literature -- The place of mathematics in the classification of the sciences -- Readings for a front -- Academic language -- The hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo -- Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert -- People are talking -- Mosquitoes by William Faulkner -- Miró, or The prehistoric poet -- Defontenay -- Conversation with Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes -- Potential literature -- Errata -- A curious evolution of modern French

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