Unreeling like a series of film clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, Raymond Queneau's "Hitting the Streets" is wickedly funny. It is also a bittersweet meditation on the effects of time and memory. "Hitting the Streets" is Queneau's love le...

"Elementary Morality", Raymond Queneau's last book, is in many ways his most momentous. Here he distils the work of a lifetime: as Surrealist, flaneur, mathematician, poet, student of Eastern philosophy, experimental novelist and co-founder of OuLiPo...