On Est Toujours Trop Bon Avec Les Femmes
On Est Toujours Trop Bon Avec Les Femmes
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On Est Toujours Trop Bon Avec Les Femmes by Queneau
We Always Treat Women Too Well was first published as a purported work of pulp fiction by one Sally Mara, but this novel by Raymond Queneau is a further manifestation of his sly, provocative, wonderfully wayward genius. Set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter rebellion, it tells of a nubile beauty who finds herself trapped in the central post office when it is seized by a group of rebels. But Gertie Girdle is no common pushover, and she quickly devises a coolly lascivious strategy by which, in very short order, she saves the day for king and country. Queneau's wickedly funny send-up of cheap smut--his response to a popular bodice-ripper of the 1940s--exposes the link between sexual fantasy and actual domination while celebrating the imagination's power to transmute crude sensationalism into pleasure pure and simple.
The Translator: Madeleine Velguth is an assistant professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to her monograph, The Representation of Women in the Autobiographical Novels of Raymond Queneau (Peter Lang, 1990), she has published articles on Queneau, Drieu la Rochelle, Derrida, Sarraute and Stendhal.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9782070373123 |
| ISBN 10 | 2070373126 |
| Title | On Est Toujours Trop Bon Avec Les Femmes |
| Author | Queneau |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Editions Flammarion |
| Year published | 1983-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |