First published in France in 1937, this brilliant, moving novel is about the dev
astating psychological effects of war, about falling in love, about politics sub
verting human relationships, and about life in Paris during the early 1930s amid
intellecturals and artists whose activities range from writing for radical maga
zines to conjuring the ghost of Lenin in seances. Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) ha
s been one of the most powerful forces in shaping the direction of French fictio
n in the past fifty years. His other novels includes The Last Days, Pierrot Mon
Ami, and Saint Glinglin.
