ABSTRACT
Three new translations from the oeuvre of Raymond Queneau (1903–1976) again show how difficult it is to pin down this prolific, multifaceted author and somehow place him in the history of twentieth-century French literature. After the translation of several novels during the past two decades, here are versions of his early poems ( Eyeseas ), his baffling last poems and prose poems ( Elementary Morality ), as well as thirty-three important essays gathered under a telling title ( Letters, Numbers, Forms ).
