Pierrot Mon Ami (French Literature)

Pierrot Mon Ami (French Literature)

Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneauâ€™s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young manâ€™s initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation. From his short-lived job at a Paris amusement park where he helps to raise womenâ€™s skirts to the delight of an unruly audience, to his frustrated and unsuccessful love of Yvonne, to his failed assignment to care for the tomb of the shadowy Prince Luigi of Poldevia, Pierrot stumbles about, nearly immune to the effects of duplicity.

This â€œinnocentâ€ implies how his story, at almost every turn, undermines, upsets, and plays upon our expectations, leaving us with more questions than answers, and doing so in a gloriously skewed style (admirably re-created by Barbara Wright, Queneauâ€™s principle translator).

Country	USA
Author	Raymond Queneau
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Queneau, Raymond/ Wright, Barbara (TRN)/ Hedges, Inez (AFT)
EAN	9781564783974
ISBN	1564783979
Label	Dalkey Archive Press
Manufacturer	Dalkey Archive Press
MPN	9781564783974
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	160
PartNumber	9781564783974
PublicationDate	1989-09-01
Publisher	Dalkey Archive Press
Studio	Dalkey Archive Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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