The Blue Flowers

by Raymond Queneau

Book Overview

The Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d'Auge as he rages through history--about 700 years of it--refusing to crusade, clobbering his king with a cannon, and dabbling in alchemy. But is it just a coincidence that the Duke appears only when Cidrolin is dozing? And vice versa? As Raymond Queneau explains: "There is an old Chinese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811227928
• ISBN13: 9780811227926
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.4"