Les Fleurs Bleues (Blue on Blue)
by Raymond Queneau
Les Fleurs Bleues is in the witty comic novel tradition. It’s a double story of a guy in retirement, living on a barge on the Seine, who dreams he’s someone else. And that someone is a medieval nobleman from Normandy who dreams he is a man living on a barge on the Seine.
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“Les Fleurs Bleues is in the witty comic novel tradition. It’s a double story of a guy in retirement, living on a barge on the Seine, who dreams he’s someone else.” Read more...
David Bellos, Biographer