The cult classic from one of France\"s most stylish writers \"Don\"t give a damn,\" says Zazie, \"what I wanted was to go in the metro\" Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel....

Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women Too Well is set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising and tells the story of the siege of a small post office by a group of rebels, who discover to their embarrassment that a female postal clerk, Gertie Girdle, is still ...

On a crowded bus at midday, the narrator observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man takes it. Later, in another part of town, the man is spotted again, while being advised by a friend to have another button sewn onto his overcoat....

When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she’s going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Bru, he willingly goes along with her scheme....

In late-nineteenth-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he’s working on, has vanished....

Brought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of \"Oulipo\" writing, celebrating the literary group who revelled in maths problems, puzzles, trickery, wordplay and conundrums. Featuring writers including Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino, it includes poems, short stories, word games and even recipes....

Y a-t-il un rapport entre l\"eau de Javel et le quai du meme nom ? Combien y a-t-il d\"arcs de triomphe a Paris ? Quel agreable souvenir dentaire est attache a la place des Etats-Unis ? Entre novembre 1936 et octobre 1938, Raymond Queneau pose chaque jour aux lecteurs du quotidien L\"Intransigeant trois questions sur Paris....

Le narrateur rencontre, dans un autobus, un jeune homme au long cou, coiffe d\"un chapeau orne d\"une tresse au lieu de ruban. Le jeune homme echange quelques mots assez vifs avec un autre voyageur, puis va s\"asseoir a une place devenue libre....