Odile
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- €9.49
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- €9.49
Publisher Description
Roland Travy, qui se croit doué pour les mathématiques, fréquente à la fois une bande de truands (dans l'entourage de laquelle il rencontre Odile) et un groupement littéraire sur lequel règne Anglarès. Il perd tour à tour ses illusions sur sa vocation de mathématicien, sa foi dans les méthodes d'Anglarès - et Odile. 'Ce n'est que beaucoup plus tard, et en dehors de tout, que se dévoilera le véritable amour... Odile est une pure histoire d'amour.' R. Q.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
One of the author's early works, this charming, semi-autobiographical novel was written before Queneau developed the highly intellectualized style that became his trademark. Like Queneau, who became involved with the Surrealists in the mid-'20s after military service in North Africa, the narrator, Roland Travy, joins a group headed by a flamboyant individual named Anglares (a disguised portrait of surrealist Andre Breton). Queneau takes deliciously funny stabs at his ``fellow revolutionaries of the unconscious,'' describing their flirtation with communism and, ultimately, Travy's break with the group. In the meantime, Travy marries Odile, a sunny but flakey young woman from a similar bourgeois background, but their relationship is too bizarre even for the Surrealists. Written in a cool detached style, full of witticisms and puns, this is Queneau at his most accessible.
