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Anna Maziarczyk
Raymond Queneau´s novels seem to describe a banal world: its toponymy and topography are derived from the real world, temporal references are based on historical events and characters are common people. All these elements produce the impression of realism. However, this impression is misleading: data concerning the setting are not so extensive or coherent as in a realistic novel.
Moreover, the same techniques are employed in a paradoxical manner: they create the effect of realism only to subvert it. The subversion of realism involves the use of repetitions, the abolition of spatio-temporal boundaries and the employment of stereotypes. Queneau´s world thus becomes ambivalent and the reader finds it hard to interpret, not least because the symbolism of time and space is especially important in Queneau´s novels. This paper seeks to analyze the chronotope of novels by Queneau and its double, symbolic and ludic, function.
