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Original Title:	Pierrot Mon Ami
ISBN:	1564783979 (ISBN13: 9781564783974)
Edition Language:	English

Pierrot Mon Ami

Raymond Queneau

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 519 Users | 47 Reviews

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Title	:	Pierrot Mon Ami
Author	:	Raymond Queneau
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1989 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published 1942)
Categories	:	Cultural. France. Fiction. Novels. Literature. European Literature. French Literature

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Pierrot Mon Ami, is considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau's finest achievements, it's a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man's initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation. From his short-lived job at a Paris amusement park where he helps to raise women's skirts to the delight of an unruly audience, to his frustrated and unsuccessful love of Yvonne, to his failed assignment to care for the tomb of the shadowy Prince Luigi of Poldevia, Pierrot stumbles about, nearly immune to the effects of duplicity.



This "innocent" implies how his story, at almost every turn, undermines, upsets, and plays upon our expectations, leaving us with more questions than answers, and doing so in a gloriously skewed style (admirably re-created by Barbara Wright, Queneau's principle translator).

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I don't know what this book is about and I don't understand what's great about it. I've made it the requisite 50% of the way through this but, finding myself now completely indifferent to how it ends, I'm going to put it aside. Maybe it's too subtle for me in the hyper-emotional state in which I find myself, or maybe I'll just never relate to such an apparently lightweight, whimsical and banally dialogue-driven way of telling a tale. To me it's a rom-com in modernist garb, and maybe in a way

begins: "take your specs off then," said tortose to pierrot, "take your specs off then if you want to look the part."check out the author photograph maybe that's a clue. all these "p" names...probably another."oh how i wish that dallas wasin tennessee"what did i think?enjoyed the story...though my reading time is not as much as it is other times through the year and so the reading suffered. at times, pierrot did not seem to register enough on the richter scale...events were an influence we know

brilliant, funny, bitter, and hopeless

This is my favorite book, and I remember that every time I read it. It is much like me in its thinking and attitude on life. Pierrot is the work that spawned my own The Summer Log. It's a book I want everyone to read. It's a damn shame it hasn't spread like wild fire. I sure do love European Modernist fiction. Always a treat. Always about the human, abandoning all other realms of reality. This book is fun, it's funny, witty, playful, warm-hearted, well-intentioned, kindly. I love everything

This book had humorous moments but ultimately I became bored. What this book needs is an American translator. The British slang is very off-putting for this reader.

Here we have the story of a disconnected Perriot who floats rather than stumbles through his own odd story, more like a mime than a clown. But Queneau doesn't let us forget Perriot's classic character origins: "No one had ever told him that he was intelligent. He had frequently been told, rather, that he behaved like an idiot or that he bore some resemblance to the moon." Perriot works at an amusement park for a short time, and one can't help reading the description of the amusements without

I think I'm going to have to reread this one. A bittersweet novel, that works slowly, almost against the traditional aims of novel - the end is a series of lost opportunities, without regret but also without a cheerful resolution. What lingers is the comic yet also almost tragic drifting of the titular character, who, like a piece of wood in the sea, rides the wave until it passes, and maintains the same intriguing buoyancy.