Two talks on Raymond Queneau by Richard Cobb. Professor of Modern History and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
1: Queneau and Le Havre
Raymond Queneau , little known in this country but famous in his own, is many things: poet, novelist, critic, publisher, mathematician - and master portrayer of the petit monde and petits gens of France's traditional culture of the quartier. It is this last aspect which Richard Cobb explores, as both critic and historian.
(Queneau and Paris: 15 Oct)