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4 unusual facts about Raymond Queneau


Matt Madden

He is best known for original alternative comics, for his coloring work in traditional comics, and for the experimental work 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style, which is based on the idea of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style.

Oubapo

OuBaPo is styled after the French literary movement Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), founded by Raymond Queneau and Georges Perec.

Robert Massin

An early, important work for Massin at Gallimard was his 1963 design for Raymond Queneau's Exercices de style, a book of 99 retellings of the same story, each presented different graphically.

Zazie

She was nicknamed "Zazie" in reference to the title character of the Raymond Queneau novel, Zazie dans le metro.


99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style

Inspired by Raymond Queneau's book Exercises in Style, it tells the same simple story in 99 different ways.

Jean-Pierre Brisset

Il also includes the major texts written about Brisset by Jules Romains, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, Raymond Queneau, Michel Foucault.


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