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The Blue Flowers
1965
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En el París de la década de 1960, Cidrolin, un insólito individuo que vive en un barco amarrado en el Sena, pasa las tardes durmiendo la siesta. Durante sus cabezadas, sueña con las aventuras del duque d'Auge, un caballero medieval que viaja en el tiempo a lomos de un caballo charlatán y filósofo. ¿O es el duque d'Auge el que sueña con Cidrolin y los avatares de un hombre del siglo XX? Incapaces de descubrir quién sueña con quién, nos adentraremos en un mundo cómico y épico a la vez capaz de provocar carcajadas o de mover a la reflexión. Los juegos del lenguaje, el anacronismo o las citas permiten a Raymond Queneau crear un singular escenario sobre el que cuestiona el sentido de la historia, de las ideologías y de la propia escritura. Queneau, uno de los autores más imaginativos y lúdicos de la literatura moderna integra varias lecturas en una: una novela de amor, un juego entre el sueño y la realidad o una parodia de la novela histórica. Pero Flores azules es, ante todo, una narración asombrosamente divertida y de una riqueza estilística y referencial desbordante. Una novela que invita a ser leída una y otra vez y a descubrir los secretos que esconde en cada una de sus páginas.

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Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau
Author · 25 books

Novelist, poet, and critic Raymond Queneau, was born in Le Havre in 1903, and went to Paris when he was 17. For some time he joined André Breton's Surrealist group, but after only a brief stint he dissociated himself. Now, seeing Queneau's work in retrospect, it seems inevitable. The Surrealists tried to achieve a sort of pure expression from the unconscious, without mediation of the author's self-aware "persona." Queneau's texts, on the contrary, are quite deliberate products of the author's conscious mind, of his memory, and his intentionality. Although Queneau's novels give an impression of enormous spontaneity, they were in fact painstakingly conceived in every small detail. He even once remarked that he simply could not leave to hazard the task of determining the number of chapters of a book. Talking about his first novel, Le Chiendent (usually translated as The Bark Tree), he pointed out that it had 91 sections, because 91 was the sum of the first 13 numbers, and also the product of two numbers he was particularly fond of: 7 and 13.

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