Hitting the Streets |
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Translator:
| Galvin, Rachel |
Author:
| Queneau, Raymond |
ISBN: | 978-1-84777-157-5 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | Carcanet Press, Limited
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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Unreeling like a series of film clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, Raymond Queneau's Hitting the Streets is wickedly funny. It is also a bittersweet meditation on the effects of time and memory. Hitting the Streets is Queneau's love letters to Paris - a Paris that is always in the process of becoming obsolete. This lively, idiomatic ......
Unreeling like a series of film clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, Raymond Queneau's Hitting the Streets is wickedly funny. It is also a bittersweet meditation on the effects of time and memory. Hitting the Streets is Queneau's love letters to Paris - a Paris that is always in the process of becoming obsolete. This lively, idiomatic ......