title: Stories and Remarks (French Modernist Library)
author:  Raymond Queneau 
description: Surrealist author, Hegel commentator, mathematician, and Gallimard editor, Queneau (Zazie dans le M tro) not only worked in a variety of disciplines but wrote across the genre spectrum. These brief pieces were collected after his death in 1976 and published in France in 1981. They are expertly translated here, quite a feat given that his culture-specific writing is often impregnated with homophonic puns and other word puzzles. Arranged chronologically, they reach back to Queneau's youth and end with a piece published in 1973. Notes provide both context and publication history for each of the essays, tableaux, satires, and other brief but internally complete pieces gathered into this volume. Libraries serving scholars will, of course, want this, but so, too, will public libraries of all sizes, for it makes accessible an often incomprehensible aesthetic. In addition to adult general readers, many sophisticated teens will delight in discovering absurdism as written by this master stylist.DFrancisca Goldsmith, Berkeley P.L., CA <br />Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **Henri Austruy**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **The Petitpaon Era**
  
  
  **and Other stories**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  translated, annotated and introduced by
  
  
  **Brian Stableford**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Black Coat Press Book
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **TABLE OF CONTENTS**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [_Introduction_ 4](004.html#a15)
  
  
  [THE LAND OF HUMANIA 9](005.html#a18)
  
  
  [THE PETITPAON ERA 53](006.html#a19)
  
  
  [MIELLUNE 218](010.html#a44)
  
  
  [THE REPUBLICAN JUNGLE 270](011.html#a46)
  
  
  [FRENCH SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY COLLECTION 300](012.html#a51)
  
  
  
  
  
  **_Introduction_**
  
  
  
  
  
  This is the second of three volumes of translations of the fantastic fiction
  of Henri Austruy; the first is _The Eupantophone and Other Stories_ , which
  contains, in addition to the title story, “The Tavern,” “The Statue” and “The
  Castle,” and the third is _The Olotelepan and Other Stories_ , which contains,
  in addition to the title story, “A Samsara” and “Master Flaver’s Revelation.”
  The introduct