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Original Title:	Le Vol d'Icare
ISBN:	0811204839 (ISBN13: 9780811204835)
Edition Language:	English

The Flight of Icarus

Raymond Queneau

Paperback | Pages: 191 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 531 Users | 68 Reviews

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Title	:	The Flight of Icarus
Author	:	Raymond Queneau
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 191 pages
Published	:	January 17th 1973 by New Directions (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. Literature. 20th Century

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”Ah! Icarus! Icarus! why try to elude the fate for which I had destined you? Where have you landed, in attempting to try out your wings? I await your return, whether voluntary or involuntary. In the meantime, all I can do is stare, dry-eyed, at that hard, forgotten lake which, under the hoar-frost, is haunted by the absence of a character. What a fate- that of a novelist without characters! Perhaps that is how it will be for all of us, one day. We won’t have any more characters. We shall be authors in search of characters. The novel will perhaps not be dead, but it won’t have characters in it any more. Difficult to imagine, a novel without characters. But isn’t all progress, if progress exists, difficult to imagine?”

Another masterpiece from Queneau, who again and again gives proof as to why when someone asks me “Who are your favorite writers?” my response is almost always “James Joyce and Raymond Queneau...” (so there, now you know something about ME!)... This 1968 novel in the form of a play (and translated here by the unstoppably badass Queneau translator par excellence Barbara Wright) takes the conceit from such works as At Swim-Two-Birds and Mulligan Stew, that fictional characters have their own autonomous lives and existences independent from the works in which they were created, and are somewhat free to roam about the wide world on their own merry way. Queaneau employs that idea in a madcap parody of Pirandello's Theater of the Absurd when Icarus takes leave of Hubert Lubert’s novel and wanders 1890’s Paris, its absinthe bars, wide boulevards, and mauve parks(?)- all the while pursued by bewildered authors, an incompetent private detective, and ladies lusting after his Icarian je nais se quoi. Icarus’s eventual interest in all things to do with mechanical PROGRESS and the play's setting at the heart and capital of fin-de-siecle Europe can be seen as something of metaphor making on Queneau’s part (blind faith in industry and machinery taking us ever closer to that enigmatic and unreachable SUN which just melts our wings okay!) and comments, in almost-asides in the dialogue, on the limits of space and time and progress make this truly hilarious comedy into something more along the lines of a work of farcical philosophizing. (And is not farce a philosophy of its own?) Anyway, this’ll take you about 2 hours to read, and it’s brilliant and hilarious, so do it.

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Queneau is one of my preferred writers. I read all his books in the complète edition the Pleiad. There are several themes in these books. Country chronicles with fantastic, urban novels and atypical objects.In this last there is 100 000 000 000 poems. I would like to rate it but I can't find the good ISBN. Don't forget that Queneau was mathematician. He creates OULIPO for submit language to mathematical rules. For exemple, Pérec from Oulipo write a book without e (the disparition). Queneau write

For me, The Flight of Icarus was a story that brought a lot of excitement but at the same time laughter. Because I laughed when he went so high into the sun and then died in the water. I loved Doedalus ideas because they where actually very good. It is incredible how greek people where so inteligent without the technologie we have nowadays. I give this book 4 stars.

One of the strangest things I have ever read.

For those that dont know, Raymond Queneau was the co-founder of the Oulipo group/movement (lazily quoting Wikipedia: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: "workshop of potential literature"). His most famous works are likely Exercises in Style (in which a short story is told 99 different times, each in a different style); Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes; translated to Hundred Thousand Billion Poems (a book of ten sonnets, but each page is cut into 14 strips for each line of the

The Flight of Icarus is a playful and loose adaptation of the cautionary tale of Greek mythology; it is quintessential Queneau: witty, clever, engaging and thoroughly and surprisingly enjoyable. A Parisian author named Hubert has a peculiar and troublesome quandary when the main character of his new novel, takes flight from the page and disappears into the hubbub of the capital. Hubert employs a disreputable detective in order to find his errant protagonist. Farcical episodes ensue as the

Ah! Icarus! Icarus! why try to elude the fate for which I had destined you? Where have you landed, in attempting to try out your wings? I await your return, whether voluntary or involuntary. In the meantime, all I can do is stare, dry-eyed, at that hard, forgotten lake which, under the hoar-frost, is haunted by the absence of a character. What a fate- that of a novelist without characters! Perhaps that is how it will be for all of us, one day. We wont have any more characters. We shall be

Amongst the essential Queneau. Characters take flight from their pages and assume responsibility of their own fates. Succinct and essential - Queneau cuts the kite string from traditional character development and in possibly his most surreal writing the role of author, doctor, lover and character are all re-examined through Queneau's clarifying lense. Despite his reputation as odd and the seemingly bizarre subject matter - this is among Queneau's more straight-forward reads. It moves very fast