Queneau

/ kəno /

noun

1. QueneauRaymond19031976MFrenchWRITING: writer Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–76. French writer, influenced in the 1920s by surrealism. His novels include Zazie dans le métro (1959)

Example Sentences

I’m not sure it’s completely unheard-of, but “Exercises in Style,” by Raymond Queneau.

From New York Times

The technique borrows a bit from Raymond Queneau’s 1947 “Exercises in Style,” 99 retellings of the same story in different genres.

From New York Times

Perec was heir to the mighty Raymonds—Roussel and Queneau—and, like those grandmasters, he unlocks strange, convulsive worlds made of words, yet his severest formalism is inseparable from an acute sensitivity to human suffering.

From The New Yorker

And Raymond Queneau said the world is not what it seems—but it isn’t anything else, either.

From The New Yorker

Marty calls commissions like this an exercice de style, after the classic work by author Raymond Queneau in which he tells the same story 99 different ways.

From Wall Street Journal