- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (3 Feb 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141183918
- ISBN-13: 978-0141183916
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 612,495 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrived in Paris from the country to stay with her female-impersonator uncle, Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the Metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is Queneau's lightest read - an amusing Parisian romp with an admirably foul-mouthed young heroine leading a cast of likeable eccentrics.
If, like the author of the heartbreakingly dreary one-star review below, you are closed to playful experimentation in literature, then of course you should steer well clear of this lively, thoroughly enjoyable book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A charming and delightful novel, full of language tricks, jumpcuts and strange oblique dialogue. Zazie is the troublemaking adolescent who arrives in Paris to stay for an entire weekend in the house of her Uncle Gabriel (Unkoo) and his permanently gentle wife, Marceline. Gabriel works as a female impersonator in a disreputable nightclub. Zazie's main ambition while in Paris is to ride the Metro, but it's shut because of a strike. She wanders off on her own and meets a dubious character variously called Pedro-surplus, Trouscallion and Haroun al Rations: he's a conman who follows her back to Uncle Gabriel's apartment.
All sorts of bizarre adventures follow. The characters that populate this novel are quirky and strange: Turandot, Mado ptits-pieds, Gridoux and the parrot Laverdure. The climax of the story is very unexpected and bizarre. The conman turns out to be an ancient gentleman who has wandered the world for a very long time (it would give away too much to state exactly who he is)... Queneau was a magnificent writer, clever, funny and original. He was also a master of the light touch that doesn't preclude profundity of thought and emotion. Brilliant!
All sorts of bizarre adventures follow. The characters that populate this novel are quirky and strange: Turandot, Mado ptits-pieds, Gridoux and the parrot Laverdure. The climax of the story is very unexpected and bizarre. The conman turns out to be an ancient gentleman who has wandered the world for a very long time (it would give away too much to state exactly who he is)... Queneau was a magnificent writer, clever, funny and original. He was also a master of the light touch that doesn't preclude profundity of thought and emotion. Brilliant!
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
...If you want wordplay almost on a par with Ulysses, try this. The film captures its spirit of jest visually but it is verbal inventiveness that makes this book.
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brilliant and original
This book is fantastic. It is one of the most original books that i think i have ever read. The language and dialogue is so wonderful that despite the fact there is no physical or... Read more
Published on 24 April 2002
stunningly good...and also very, very funny.
this book is fabulous. it's light and funny but also brilliantly written (and brilliantly translated). Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2001
1 star is still too many stars.
This book is dire. How anybody could describe it as a classic is beyond me.
Many words are incorrectly spelt throughout the book (albeit deliberately). Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2000 by amazon@concretecow.fsnet.co.uk
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