The Blue Flowers

by Raymond Queneau

Book Overview

At his death in 1976, Raymond Queneau was one of France's most eminent men of letters--novelist, poet, essayist, editor, scientist, mathematician, and, more to the point, pataphysician. And only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have come up with The Blue Flowers, Queneau's 1964 novel, now reissued as a New Directions Paperbook. To a pataphysician all things are equal, there is no improvement or progress in the human condition,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811209458
• ISBN13: 9780811209458
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"