PositiveThe New YorkerWhen it came to the novel, Raymond Queneau imagined a kind that would advance along strict compositional lines, like poetry or architecture, yet upset all expectation. Take The Blue Flowers, published in 1973 and now happily reissued by New Directions ... Philosophy was seldom far from Queneau. In The Blue Flowers, which sometimes reads as a perversely static update on \'Candide,\' history is the paramount theme.
