After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
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We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
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Birth: | 21st February, 1903 |
Death: | 25th October, 1976 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
Raymond Queneau was a French novelist, poet and the co-founder of Ouvroir de littérature potentielle. Born in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Queneau was the only child of Auguste Queneau and Joséphine Mignot. He received his first baccalauréat in 1919 for Latin and Greek, and a second in 1920 for philosophy, then studied at the Sorbonne where he was a fair student of both letters and mathematics, graduating with certificates in philosophy and psychology.
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