Icarus is caught but he escapes once again… Following his example, other personages run away from other authors… they want to be free and they wish to be real… As the saying goes: there are times when it’s ridiculous to fight against a shadow. He has appeared in many novels under different names. I want him to like moonlight, fairy roses, the exotic types of nostalgia, the languors of Spring, fin-de-siècle neuroses – all things that I personally abhor, but which go down well in the present-day novel.īut barely he is conceived by the author he flees the manuscript into the real world… So his creator is obliged to hire a cunning private eye to find the escapee…ĭon’t you know Morcol – the Subtle Shadowing specialist? The man who follows adulterous women and finds lost sheep. I am preparing a melancholy existence for him which could hardly displease him because he knows no other. Icarus is supposed to be a character in a novel… Talking about his first novel, Le Chiendent (usually translated as The Bark Tree), he pointed out that it had 91 sections, because 91 was the sum of the first 13 numbers, and also the product of two numbers he was particularly fond of: 7 and 13. He even once remarked that he simply could not leave to hazard the task of determining the number of chapters of a book. The Surrealists tried to achieve a sort of pure expression from the unconscious, without mediation of the author's self-aware "persona." Queneau's texts, on the contrary, are quite deliberate products of the author's conscious mind, of his memory, and his intentionality.Īlthough Queneau's novels give an impression of enormous spontaneity, they were in fact painstakingly conceived in every small detail. Now, seeing Queneau's work in retrospect, it seems inevitable. For some time he joined André Breton's Surrealist group, but after only a brief stint he dissociated himself. Pride Month is a great time to read queer books by queer authors.Novelist, poet, and critic Raymond Queneau, was born in Le Havre in 1903, and went to Paris when he was 17. It might not sound like much, but it sure makes a difference to me. You can become my patron for as little as two bucks a month. And it’s a great way to keep this fool writing the kind of stories you (hopefully) love. You also have the opportunity to see you name included in the front of the final book. If you’ve ever wished you could’ve given an author feedback before they published a story, this is your chance. That’s in addition to all the other goodies that are available there. The first book is already complete and will be out later this year, but you can read it RIGHT NOW over on Patreon, where I’m sharing four chapters a week. I consider it the spiritual successor to the Something Like… series, since it’s also about a group of young people in the nineties who are attempting to navigate the game of love. I’m also happy to announce that I’ve begun work on a new series called Pride High. But like the story of old, will Icarus find himself falling in love while also falling to his death? The answer can be found in the story itself, which is now available here. Of course there are plenty of complications that get in the way, but hey, that’s nothing a pair of wax wings can’t fix. In it, a handsome young man-Icarus-becomes obsessed with attracting the attention of a gorgeous god-Apollo-no matter how unlikely their love might seem. The result is my latest novella, Icarus and Apollo. So I took it upon myself to fix it by making it MUCH more gay. It’s that old “don’t aim too high” myth that needed a serious overhaul. Most of us are familiar with the myth of Icarus.
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