Raymond Queneau

Raymond Queneau was born in Le Havre on 21 February 1903 and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. Close to the Surrealists from 1924, he drifted away from André Breton at the end of the twenties. He joined the reading committee of Gallimard in 1938 and later directed the Encyclopédie de la Pléiade. Elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1951, he was in 1960 one of the founders of the Oulipo, devoted to writing under constraint. He also wrote songs, one of which was made famous by Juliette Gréco. He died in Paris on 25 October 1976.

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