Saint Glinglin |
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Author:
| Queneau, Raymond |
Translator:
| Sallis, James |
Series title: | French Literature Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-56478-027-0 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1993 |
Publisher: | Deep Vellum Publishing
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Imprint: | Dalkey Archive Press |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $19.95USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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The last of his major novels to be translated into,English, Saint Glinglin is Queneau's tragicomic,masterpiece, a novel that critic Vivian Mercier,said "" can be mentioned without incongruity in the,company... of Mann's MAGIC MOUNTAIN and Joyce's,ULYSSES. By turns strange, beautiful, ludicrousand intellectually stimulating."" It retells the,primal Freudian myth of sons killing the father in,an array of styles ranging from direct soliloquyand interior monologue to quasi-biblical verse.
The last of his major novels to be translated into,English, Saint Glinglin is Queneau's tragicomic,masterpiece, a novel that critic Vivian Mercier,said "" can be mentioned without incongruity in the,company... of Mann's MAGIC MOUNTAIN and Joyce's,ULYSSES. By turns strange, beautiful, ludicrousand intellectually stimulating."" It retells the,primal Freudian myth of sons killing the father in,an array of styles ranging from direct soliloquyand interior monologue to quasi-biblical verse.