Zazie in the Metro
$23.60
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2023
Summary
The cult classic from one of France’s most stylish writers.
Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute. In 1960 Queneau’s cult classic was made into a hugely successful film by Louis Malle. Packed full of word play and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241618875 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241618878 |
| Author: | Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 129mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau is remembered as one of the great comic, experimental French writers of the twentieth century. Co-founder of Oulipo, he published many books including Exercises in Style, but Zazie in the metro remains the popular favourite which has captured readers’ imaginations around the world. Queneau died in 1976, aged seventy-three.
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