Fiction
The Bark Tree
Raymond Queneau's Witch Grass, originally Le Chiendent, is a philosophical farce in which a man in a Paris café glimpses another man hurrying for a train and decides, on no evidence, to follow the thread of his existence. The result is a comic, digressive novel about the absurdity of narrative itself, full of characters who live on the sleazy, talkative outskirts of the city of lights.New Directions' edition presents the book in a compact paperback format, appropriate for Queneau's odd, rigorously playful fiction. It is a good shelf companion to Zazie in the Metro or Exercises in Style, and a better fit for readers who think novels should misbehave a little, following a thread because it is there rather than because it leads anywhere.
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