Raymond Queneau
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Raymond Auguste Queneau was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo, notable for his wit and cynical humour.
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Effigy of Raymond Queneau, Satrap of Collège de 'Pataphysique, by Jean-Max Albert Rt
A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems or One hundred million million poems is a book by Raymond Queneau, published in 1961. The book is a set of ten sonnets printed on card with each line on a separate str
Raymond Queneau
…trivial details such as the number of chapters, were things that had to be predetermined, perhaps calculated. This was an issue during the writing of A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, also known as 100,000,000,000,000 Poems. Queneau wrote 140 lines in 10 individual sonnets that could all be taken apart and rearranged in any order…
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