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Prestige, cool, open-ended and spare.
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Raymond Queneau
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 30
- Publisher
- Gallimard, Kickshaws
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9782070104673
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Raymond Queneau est un romancier, poète, dramaturge français, cofondateur du groupe littéraire Oulipo, né le 21 février 1903 au Havre et mort le 25 octobre 1976 à Paris 13e. Il se distinguait par son esprit vif et son humour cynique. ---------- Raymond Queneau was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), notable for his wit and cynical humour. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Queneau)
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