Raymond Queneau

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Raymond Queneau (born February 21, 1903 in Le Havre , † October 25, 1976 in Neuilly near Paris ) was a French poet and writer . His best-known work is the novel Zazie dans le métro .

Life

Even in his youth, Raymond Queneau had contact with the French surrealists . In 1949 he was one of the first to sign the Manifestes des Collège de 'Pataphysique (artist group ' Pataphysik ), which goes back to the poet and playwright Alfred Jarry - he also received the highest award ( satrape ) of this institution in 1977 . As a result, he founded the artist movement OuLiPo together with François Le Lionnais , to which the writers Georges Perec and Italo Calvino also belonged. At the same time he worked as director of the Encyclopédie de la Pléiade for the respected publishing house Gallimard . In 1951 he became a member of the Académie Goncourt . With his novel Zazie dans le métro (German: Zazie in der Metro ), published in 1959 , which describes the adventures of a country girl in Paris, Queneau became famous. The book was filmed in the following year by Louis Malle (German title Zazie ).

Works

Most of Queneau's works were translated into German by Eugen Helmlé .

Novels

  • Le Chiendent , 1933, German: "Der Hundszahn", Werner Fee, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-920014-03-0 ; first work to be awarded the annual “ Prix ​​des Deux Magots ”.
  • Gueule de pierre , 1934
  • Les Derniers Jours , 1936, German: "The little shops of Monsieur Brabbant"
  • Odile , 1937, German: "Odile", Manesse, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7175-2186-0
  • Les Enfants du Limon , 1938, German: "The children of old Limon"
  • Un rude hiver , 1939, German: "A severe winter / A winter in LeHavre"
  • Les Temps mêlés (Gueule de pierre II) , 1941
  • Pierrot mon ami , 1942, German: "My friend Pierrot"
  • Loin de Rueil , 1944, German: "The skin of dreams", "Far from Rueil"
  • On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes , 1947, German: "One is always too good to women"
  • Saint-Glinglin , 1948, German: "Holy Bimbam"
  • Le Journal intime de Sally Mara , 1950, German: “Intimes Diary of Sally Mara”, Stahlberg, Karlsruhe 1964 and Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt 1979
  • Le Dimanche de la vie , 1952, German: "Sunday of Life", Stahlberg, Karlsruhe 1968
  • Zazie dans le métro , 1959, German: " Zazie in the Metro ", Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-518-39974-3
  • Les Fleurs bleues , 1965, German: " The blue flowers ", Stahlberg, Karlsruhe 1966
  • Le Vol d'Icare , 1968, German: "The Flight of Icarus"

Poetry

  • Chêne et chien , 1937, German: "Oak and dog"
  • Les Ziaux , 1943
  • L'Instant fatal , 1946
  • Petite cosmogonie portative , 1950, German: "Pocket cosmogony "
  • Cent mille milliards de poèmes , 1961, German: " One hundred thousand billion poems "
  • Le Chien à la mandoline , 1965
  • Courir les rues , 1967
  • Battre la campagne , 1968
  • Fendre les flots , 1969
  • Morale élémentaire , 1975

Essays, essays and articles

  • Joan Miró ou le Poète préhistorique , 1949, German: "Miró or the prehistoric poet", 1965
  • Bâtons, chiffres et lettres , 1950, German: "Lines, characters and letters"
  • Pour Une Bibliothèque Idéale , 1956
  • Entretiens avec Georges Charbonnier , 1962
  • Bords , 1963, German: "Tomorrow's Mathematics"
  • Une Histoire modèle , 1966, German: “A model story”, 1970
  • Le Voyage en Grèce , 1973
  • Traité des vertus démocratiques , 1993

Editing

  • Alexandre Kojève : Introduction à la lecture de Hegel. Leçons sur la phenoménologie de l'esprit, professées de 1933 à 1939 à l'Ecole des Hautes-Etudes. Edited by Raymond Queneau. Gallimard, Paris 1947. Partial translation: Alexandre Kojève: Hegel, a visualization of his thinking. Commentary on the phenomenology of the mind. Translated by Iring Fetscher . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, from 1975 at Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, numerous editions, ISBN 3-518-27697-2

Various

The anecdote “Autobus S” is told in 99 variants and serves as a way of experimenting Queneau with the French language through all styles, slangs and dialects up to phonetic spelling. Reading is recommended because of the language and sound games in the French original, although the German translation by Harig / Helmlé is considered to be intellectually equal. In 2016, an expanded new translation by Frank Heibert and Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel was published, also by Suhrkamp (the translators were awarded the Straelen Translator Prize of the Kunststiftung NRW 2017).

  • Contes et propos foreword Michel Leiris 1981
    • German: Of the benefits and disadvantages of sedatives. Stories, translators. And Nachbem. Hans Thill (only a selection, and without the preface) Wagenbach, Berlin 2002 ISBN 3-8031-3170-7 . The included "The Trojan Horse", "Am Waldrand" u. a. first trans. by Eugen Helmlé : The Trojan horse and other stories Limes, Wiesbaden 1964
  • Journal 1939-1940 , 1986
  • Journaux 1914-1965 , 1996
  • Dialogues from the film Angst in der Stadt (1964)

literature

  • Marcel Bourdette Donon: Queneau . Harmattan, Paris 2003
  • Pierre David: Dictionnaire des personnages de Raymond Queneau . Pulim, Limoges 1994
  • Daniel Debreil: Raymond Queneau et les spectacles . Noésis, Margency 2004
  • Critical lexicon of contemporary foreign language literature KLfG, article by Eugen Helmlé . Edition text and criticism München o. J. (continuous Loseblattsammlung)
  • Wolfgang Schwarzer: Raymond Queneau 1903 - 1976. in Jan-Pieter Barbian (Red.): Vive la littérature! French literature in German translation. Edited and published by Duisburg City Library. ISBN 978-3-89279-656-5 , p. 27 with ill.
  • Michel Lécureur: Raymond Queneau: biography . Paris: Belles Lettres / Archimbaud, 2002 ISBN 2-251-44213-8

Discography

  • Si tu t'imagines , music by Joseph Kosma, Juliette Gréco, 1949
  • Raymond Queneau mis en musique et chanté , by Jean-Marie Humel, Paris, Jacques Canetti, 1991
  • François Cotinaud fait son Raymond Queneau , ensemble Text'up, Label Musivi, 2002
  • L'instant fatal , music by Max Unger, 2010

Web links

Commons : Raymond Queneau  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fatrazie.com: Histoire de Collège - Le 23. clinamen 84 (French, accessed on September 18, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Queneau, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Havre
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1976
Place of death Neuilly , Hauts-de-Seine department , France