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Sally Mara's Intimate Diary by Raymond Queneau (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing

ISBN-101628974605

ISBN-139781628974607

eBay Product ID (ePID)6057282620

Product Key Features

Book TitleSally Mara's Intimate Diary

Number of Pages254 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicComing of Age, Literary

Publication Year2023

GenreFiction

AuthorRaymond Queneau

Book SeriesFrench Literature Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight11.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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SynopsisSally Mara's Intimate Diary is exceptional; a salacious, blackly humorous, erotic, and meaningful story by the skillful and erudite French novelist, Raymond Queneau. When "Sally Mara" begins her diary in January 1934, she is 17 years old and lives with her mother and siblings in south-central Dublin. Though the everyday language is English, she writes in "newly-learned" French to impress her beloved and just departed French tutor, a professional polyglot linguist. To impress him even more, she decides to learn Irish and write a novel in that difficult and ailing language. However, the action throughout is guided by Sally's resolution to overcome her ignorance of the mysteries of sex and reproduction. When Raymond Queneau wrote Journal intime in 1949 (published anonymously under the pseudonym Sally Mara), he was, as always, fascinated by the inadequacies of language and orthography and greatly influenced by James Joyce. He was also in debt and in need of the ready money provided by Editions du Scorpion, publishers of risqué pulp fiction. The impish charm of Sally Mara's Journal intime is founded on language and languages, so this translation to the-formerly "hidden" English, while prioritizing clarity, aims to maintain "Frenchness," tinged of course with Dublinese., Sally Mara's Intimate Diary , dating from 1950, is exceptional; a salacious, black humorous andmeaningful story by the influential and erudite French novelist, Raymond Queneau. When 'Sally Mara'begins her diary in January 1934, she is 17 years old and lives with her mother, older brother andyounger sister in south central Dublin. The everyday language is, of course, English, but she is writingin 'newly-learned' French to impress her beloved and just departed French tutor, a professional polyglotlinguist. To impress him even more, she decides to learn Irish in order to write a novel of some kind inIrish. However, the action throughout is determined by Sally's resolution to overcome her ignorance ofthe mysteries of sex and reproduction. The often sensual and dark humour of Sally Mara's Journal intime is founded on language andlanguages, so this translation, while prioritizing clarity, aims to maintain 'Frenchness', tinged of coursewith Dublinese. Surprisingly, for a French author, Irish words and phrases occur throughout; these arenot translated but, like some challenging French phrases, are supported by footnotes.In 1949, when Raymond Queneau wrote Journal intime, published anonymously under thepseudonym Sally Mara, he was, as always, greatly influenced by James Joyce and fascinated by thelimitations of language. He was also in need of the ready money provided by Éditions du Scorpion,publishers of erotic and violent pulp fiction, and of Journal intime .