Beschreibung
The Last Days is an autobiographical novel by Raymond Queneau, in which he describes student life in Paris in the 1920s. Vincent Tuquedenne tries to dedicate himself to both his beloved reading and somewhat sterile studying, as he hopes to learn from books how to escape the bourgeois environment in which he lives and which constrains him. Vincent and his generation stand in contrast to the older generation of retired teachers and petty crooks. Both generations are subjected to the contemplative gaze of Alfred, a waiter at the café U měchu, whose infallible astrological method of predicting the future effectively mocks the scientific approach to life that most people foolishly rely on. Similarly, Queneau's literary world operates according to its own laws, intertwining painstakingly careful refinement of artistic aspects with an unabashedly loving evocation of life as it appeared in the irretrievable past.
Information
Author: Queneau Raymond
Publication date: 8. November 2017
Manufacturer: Volvox Globator
Genres: Novels, World fiction, Books, Fiction
Pages: 240
ISBN/EAN: 9788075113603