Saint Glinglin

(French Literature Series). The novel retells the primal Freudian myth of sons killing the father in an array of styles ranging from direct narrative, sollioquy, and interior monologue to quasi-bibilical verse. In this strange tale of a land where it never rains, where a bizarre festival is held every Saint Glinglin's Day, Queneau deploys fractured syntax, hidden structures, self-imposed constraints, playful allusions, and puns and neologisms to explore the most basic concepts of culture, along the way satirizing anthropology, folklore, philosophy, and epistemology. 169p.