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When ‘Sally Mara’ begins her diary in January 1934, she is 17 years old and lives with her mother, older brother and younger sister in south central Dublin. The everyday language is, of course, English, but she is writing in ‘newly-learned’ French to impress her beloved and just departed French tutor, a professional polyglot linguist. To impress him even more, she decides to learn Irish in order to write a novel of some kind in Irish. However, the action throughout is determined by Sally’s resolution to overcome her ignorance of the mysteries of sex and reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe often sensual and dark humor of Sally Mara’s \u003cem\u003eJournal intime\u003c\/em\u003e is founded on language and languages, so this translation, while prioritizing clarity, aims to maintain ‘Frenchness’, tinged of course with Dublinese. Surprisingly, for a French author, Irish words and phrases occur throughout; these are not translated but, like some challenging French phrases, are supported by footnotes. In 1949, when Raymond Queneau wrote \u003cem\u003eJournal intime\u003c\/em\u003e, published anonymously under the pseudonym Sally Mara, he was, as always, greatly influenced by James Joyce and fascinated by the limitations of language. He was also in need of the ready money provided by Éditions du Scorpion, publishers of erotic and violent pulp fiction, and of \u003cem\u003eJournal intime\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOther Books by Raymond Queneau\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dalkeyarchive.store\/products\/pierrot-mon-ami\"\u003ePierrot Mon Ami\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dalkeyarchive.store\/products\/the-last-days?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=c4df663bf\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eThe Last Days\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Raymon Queneau\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We always feel good reading a Queneau novel; he is the least depressing of the moderns, the least heavy, with something Mozartian about the easy, self-pleasing flow of his absurd plots.” \u003cstrong\u003e—John Updike, \u003cem\u003eThe \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Queneau has long been considered by the French to be a writer of ingenuity, wit and singular intelligence.\" \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Information\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaymond Queneau\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1903-1976) is acknowledged as one of the most influential of modern French writers, having helped determine the shape of twentieth-century French literature, especially in his role with the Oulipo, a group of authors that includes Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, and Harry Mathews, among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Gosling\u003c\/strong\u003e, translator of and commentator on this work has previously published appreciations of Queneau’s Sally Mara works (\u003cem\u003eRaymond Queneau’s Dubliners\u003c\/em\u003e, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019; \u003cem\u003eQueneau philologue, Sally romancière\u003c\/em\u003e, Éditions universitaires de Dijon, in press).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42627629187227,"sku":"9781628974607","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":42627629219995,"sku":"9781628974874","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0594\/2915\/9067\/files\/QueneauFinalFrontCoverJPEG.jpg?v=1687905058"},{"product_id":"pierrot-mon-ami","title":"Pierrot Mon Ami","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRaymond Queneau\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Barbara Wright\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9781628974614\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: 9\/26\/23\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePierrot Mon Ami\u003c\/i\u003e, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’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 women’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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis “innocent” 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, Queneau’s principal translator).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOther Books by Raymond Queneau\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dalkeyarchive.store\/products\/sally-maras-intimate-diary\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSally Mara's Intimate Diary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dalkeyarchive.store\/products\/the-last-days?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=c4df663bf\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Last Days\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“We always feel good reading a Queneau novel; he is the least depressing of the moderns, the least heavy, with something Mozartian about the easy, self-pleasing flow of his absurd plots.” \u003cstrong\u003e—John Updike, \u003cem\u003eThe \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Raymond Queneau’s books are ambiguous fairylands in which scenes of everyday life are mingled with a melancholy that is ageless. Though they are not without bitterness, their author seems always to set his face against conclusions, and to be moved by a kind of horror of seriousness. ‘Foolishness,’ according to Flaubert, ‘consists of wanting to reach a conclusion.’ One can imagine those words as the epigraph to Queneau’s\u003cem\u003e Pierrot Mon Ami\u003c\/em\u003e\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Albert Camus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQueneau has long been considered by the French to be a writer of ingenuity, wit and singular intelligence.\" \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"I must underline here the importance of the novels of Raymond Queneau, whose texture often and whose movement always are strictly those of the imagination.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Alain Robbe-Grillet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Loopily clever . . . inexhaustibly inventive, unremittingly disconcerting, overflowing with subversive energy, surrealistic wit, and rough-edged whimsy . . . All [of Barbara Wright's] translations, including this one, are triumphs of ingenuity. After reading her English version of \u003cem\u003ePierrot Mon Ami\u003c\/em\u003e, I raced through Queneau's original in delighted admiration . . . It is full of sentences which dizzy the reader with the hilarity of their close-packed variety of tone: low argot sabotages an elaborate metaphor in elevated language like Harpo Marx goosing Margaret Dumont . . . Queneau's books deserve a wider audience than they have yet won in this country. Anyone who has read one of Wright's translations has probably read them all, and will go out and get this one without needing to be urged. But if you haven't read one already, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePierrot Mon Ami\u003c\/span\u003e would be an excellent introduction. I must warn you that a taste for Queneau can escalate quite easily into an addiction, but you shouldn't let that stop you, because most good book stores here offer three or four of Wright's translations in paperback, and he's even more fun to re-read than to read.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Cityweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“A brilliant, quirky novel by a French novelist whose reputation continues to grow in America.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePierrot Mon Ami\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis a poem on chance and destiny, on the relationship between what should have happened and what actually does happen . . . Pierrot represents one of the main types of the Queneau hero: the simpleton who is a natural poet and who passes through the world without understanding it, without seeking to understand it. In an absurd and meaningless universe this is the most rational and least foolish of all possible attitudes: the taking of life as it comes, without thought of the morrow, and with the resulting freedom to enjoy its simple pleasures.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Martin Esslin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Information\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaymond Queneau\u003c\/strong\u003e (1903-1976) is acknowledged as one of the most influential of modern French writers, having helped determine the shape of twentieth-century French literature, especially in his role with the Oulipo, a group of authors that includes Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, and Harry Mathews, among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Wright\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of the premier English translators of modern French literature. 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Molia takes our fascination with superheroes and adds a cutting portrayal of contemporary social mores to create an entertaining and disturbing work with deep dystopian underpinnings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Just as the superheroes attempt to escape the strictures imposed upon them and resist the ways in which they are exploited by the French government and global media, so too does Molia’s novel resist easy classification and subvert expectations, demonstrating the novel’s enduring capacity to critique society while celebrating wild flights of imagination.\" —\u003cstrong\u003ePhillipe Brand, \u003cem\u003eContemporary French and Francophone Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eAvant de Disparaître\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs always, Miano’s poetry and suspense combine to create another superbly crafted novel.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChris Reyns-Chikuma, \u003cem\u003eThe French Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Johns Hopkins University Press\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Information\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eXabi Molia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Bayonne, France, in 1977. After studying literature, he wrote a dissertation on Hollywood disaster films for his doctorate in film studies. Molia taught at the Université de Poitiers until 2011 when he left to pursue a career as a novelist and filmmaker. He has directed three feature films and published numerous books, including six novels. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAlexander Hertich\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Professor of French and Chair of World Languages and Cultures at Bradley University. His translation of René Belletto’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDying\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was a finalist for the French-American Foundation Annual Translation Prize. He has translated works \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby Simone de Beauvoir, Étienne Balibar, Nicolas Bouyssi, and Christian Gailly. In addition to translation, he is an active literary scholar and has published on Patrick Modiano, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Marie NDiaye, Frédéric Beigbeder, and Raymond Queneau.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42627676897435,"sku":"9781628974621","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":42627676930203,"sku":"9781628974898","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0594\/2915\/9067\/products\/9781628974621_FC.jpg?v=1660005060"},{"product_id":"dying","title":"Dying","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRené Belletto\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003etranslated by Alexander Hertich\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date: 10\/07\/2010\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: 9781564785930\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA metaphysical thriller about the lengths to which men will go to escape the inevitable--be it love or death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row pl-0\" _ngcontent-yhq-c146=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-sm-12\" _ngcontent-yhq-c146=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row pl-2\" _ngcontent-yhq-c146=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-sm-12 pl-0\" _ngcontent-yhq-c146=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"form-group\" _ngcontent-yhq-c146=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42787190964379,"sku":"9781564785930","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0594\/2915\/9067\/products\/9781564785930_FC.jpg?v=1663001691"},{"product_id":"making-a-novel","title":"Making a Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Gérard Gavarry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Jane Kuntz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: 07\/19\/2011\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: 9781564785763\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA literary exploration into the serendipitous convergences underpinning the writing of a novel (here, Ge rard Gavarry s masterful Hoppla! 1 2 3), this rare and revealing glimpse into the creative process pulls back the curtain on the composition of a playful and self-conscious work of fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42787740549275,"sku":"9781564785763","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":42787740582043,"sku":"9781564786586","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0594\/2915\/9067\/products\/9781564786586_FC.jpg?v=1663019096"},{"product_id":"camera","title":"Camera","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jean-Philippe Toussaint\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Matthew B. 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