Name: Hitting the Streets
SKU: 49530799
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Author: Queneau, Raymond ; Galvin, Rachel
ISBN: 9781847771575

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Author

Raymond Queneau

Translated by

Rachel Galvin

Publisher

Carcanet Press

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3x13.5x2 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781847771575

Synopsis "Hitting the Streets"

Taxi drivers, street sweepers, a bouquiniste, unsuccessful prostitutes, a menaced bicycle rider, noisy children, an old woman shunted aside in a crowd, and some disgruntled animals at the zoo populate these poems. Unreeling like a series of clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, the book is wickedly funny, but it is also a bittersweet meditation on how "the river of forgetfulness carries away the city." This is the poet's love letter to Paris--a Paris that is always in the process of becoming superannuated. Rachel Galvin's lively, idiomatic version is the first complete translation available in English.

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