We Always Treat Women Too Well

By Raymond Queneau

Book Overview

Set in Dublin during the 1916 rebellion, this novel tells of a beauty trapped in a post office seized by rebels. This tale celebrates the imagination's power to transmute crude sensationalism into pure pleasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811207935
• ISBN13: 9780811207935
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Revolt(ing) or Reveal(ing)?

Hilarious! There is rape (maybe?); murder (war?); and an analysis of fashion. The situational morality was the keystone of the book. Should I? Will she? If she doesn't tell did it really happen? Did it really happen? Stereotypes abound in the characters. I have never been closer to Ireland than wading along the coast of Maine, but I felt I was there. I could see the action as it was being described. This is a marvelous short read that ended way to soon, but couldn't have been made longer without ruining it.

The Irish by the French

All of the characters in this work are minor characters in Joyce's Ulysses. Yet, this is another day, another event, and the relation to Joyce is only one of names, or is it?This is work of frank sex and violence. The heroine? A nymphette. Who wins and are the revolutionaries really bad people? Queneau leaves that question open, prefering to unfurl the problematics of human relations in what can only be described as an unusual circumstance.Read it.

Irish revolution viewed from a bank...

Irish revolutionnaries in Dublin. They try to invest the city. We follow a group of them in a bank. And a young woman trapped in the "lavatories" (in english in the text) fiancée of an english captain... A story of innocent people who tempted to enter the history. Written in a fresh and joyful language.For more information this book is a part of another which title is "the private diary of Sally Mara" which is really worthwhile to read.