biography
pronunciation:
[kuhnoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1903–76)
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| biography:
| Poet, novelist, and humorist, born in Le Havre, NW France. He studied at the Sorbonne, and in 1924 became involved with the Surrealists, along with Pierre Naville. After working as a reporter, he was appointed a reader for the prestigious Encyclopédie de la Pléiade, becoming director in 1955. The best of his poetry is contained in Les Ziaux (1943), Petite Cosmogonie Portative (1950), and Si tu t'imagines (1952). The vision of an absurd world is the format for his novels, including Le Chiendent (1933), Zazie dans le métro (1959) probably his best-known work (filmed 1960), Les Fleurs bleues (1965), and Le Vol d'Icare (1968). Often self-reflective, they anticipate some of the devices of the nouveau roman. |
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