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The last of his major novels to be translated into English, Saint Glinglin is Queneau's tragicomic masterpiece, a novel that critic Vivian Mercier said "can be mentioned without incongruity in the company" of Mann's Magic Mountain and Joyce's Ulysses. "By turns strange, beautiful, ludicrous, and intellectually stimulating" (as Mercier goes on to say), Saint Glinglin retells the primal Freudian myth of sons killing the father in an array of styles ranging from direct narrative, soliloquy, and interior monologue to quasi-biblical verse. In this strange tale of a land where it never rains, where a bizarre festival is held every Saint Glinglin's Day, Queneau deploys fractured syntax, hidden structures, self-imposed constraints (no words with the letter x until the final word of the novel), playful allusions, and puns and neologisms to explore the most basic concepts of culture. In the process, Queneau satirizes anthropology, folklore, philosophy, and epistemology, all the while spinning a story as appealing as a fairy tale. As translator James Sallis writes in his informative introduction, "Queneau saw science and literature much in the same light: as games offering marvelous opportunities to make all sorts of connections and play out the consequence of arbitrary rules, but offering no essential knowledge of things in themselves." And as he says of Saint Glinglin, "There's nothing quite like it anywhere."
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
For readers willing to relax demands for credibility and logic, Queneau's funny, philosophical nonsense is addictive. Here, Queneau ( Zazie dans le metro ) has created a world, starting with its banalities: the cliches, the tired small talk, the outdated prejudices, the little points of pride. This world, Home Town, is settled in its ways under perpetually blue skies and under the guidance of Nabonidus, its proud mayor. But the mayor's children, all corrupted by influences from Foreign Town, turn against both their father and the traditional ways. To say any more about the plot is to imply that there really is one. Like all of Queneau's books, this is much about language, both dry experimentation (the entire book is a lipogram--there are no X s) and full of neologisms and quirky style, which are meant simply to amuse (``Pierre went back down the three steps, paused by his father without turning his head, put his hat atop his head where it belonged, bent to pick up his suitcase and left''). But Saint Glinglin also has a distinctly mystical bent with its (often obscure) musings on life and fish, alienation and verdancy, sacrifice and eel-baskets. Described in brief, Queneau may seem a fearsome read, but in situ he is a gentle, playful guide. (July)
Library Journal
The novels of Queneau (1903-76) were forerunners of le nouveau roman (the ``new novel''), which rejected traditional methods of plotting and characterization and instead created fantastical fictional worlds replete with ``new'' languages. This novel suggests that fear binds all living beings together, but readers won't be able to dwell on that emotion, busy as they are trying to follow a bizarre plot replete with characters just this side of lunacy yet touchingly human. The liberal use of phonetic spelling ( existence translates to eksistence , aiguesistence, orgresistence , eggsistence , or algae sistence , if its fish) keeps us alert and amused. Queneau's riveting language provides an entree to complex existentialist meditations on the alienation of both fish and humans from nature and to brilliantly inventive discourses on insects. The plot is fantastical but interwoven with enough threads of reality to keep the reader turning pages. A fine rendition of one of Queneau's most important novels; essential for academic and large public libraries.-- Olivia Opello, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781564780270
  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Publication date: 6/1/1993
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 169

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