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A review by buddhafish
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
3.0
112th book of 2023. And now I'm over the Bookers, back to my challenge with Alan where this sits at #3, Read a book by an OULIPO writer.
This is fun, a bit dated (gesture), and was probably a horror to translate. Queneau has thrown all sorts of wordplay and puns into the novel in true (gesture) OULIPOian fashion. I prefer Exercises in Style. Zazie is a sweet little menace but all the confusion about the drag artist being a 'hormosessual' and the whole charade with the cop, it just wasn't as funny as I hoped it would be (or as funny as it one day was, maybe). But hey (gesture), I like the OULIPO stuff generally and what they stood for.
This is fun, a bit dated (gesture), and was probably a horror to translate. Queneau has thrown all sorts of wordplay and puns into the novel in true (gesture) OULIPOian fashion. I prefer Exercises in Style. Zazie is a sweet little menace but all the confusion about the drag artist being a 'hormosessual' and the whole charade with the cop, it just wasn't as funny as I hoped it would be (or as funny as it one day was, maybe). But hey (gesture), I like the OULIPO stuff generally and what they stood for.