Naming & Unnaming: On Raymond Queneau

by Jordan Stump

Naming and Unnaming is a dazzling study that centers on the work of Raymond Queneau, one of the most influential French novelists of the twentieth century. Jordan Stump takes as his subject the many implications--epistemological, political, literary, sometimes even physical--of naming in Queneau's remarkable novels. From the idea that the names of characters offer a more immediate and perhaps even a more intimate understanding of their souls than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803242689
• ISBN13: 9780803242685
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 193 Pages