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A review by buddhafish
The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau
3.0
76th book of 2021.
A novel in the form of a script: a novelist's character, Icarus, has vanished from the manuscript and now wandering Paris. It's a fun novel(?) but not entirely compelling as I dislike reading script-formats on the whole. Barbara Wright is a wonderful translator and keeps the humorous wordplay that Queneau adopts throughout about Icarus always flying here and there and taking wing from the pub or whatever he happens to be doing.
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See also:
Exercises in Style, Queneau
At Swim-Two-Birds, O'Brien.
A novel in the form of a script: a novelist's character, Icarus, has vanished from the manuscript and now wandering Paris. It's a fun novel(?) but not entirely compelling as I dislike reading script-formats on the whole. Barbara Wright is a wonderful translator and keeps the humorous wordplay that Queneau adopts throughout about Icarus always flying here and there and taking wing from the pub or whatever he happens to be doing.
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See also:
Exercises in Style, Queneau
At Swim-Two-Birds, O'Brien.