{"product_id":"sally-maras-intimate-diary-9781628974607","title":"Sally Mara's Intimate Diary","description":"\u003ci\u003eSally Mara's Intimate Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, dating from 1950, is exceptional; a salacious, black humorous and\u003cbr\u003emeaningful story by the influential and erudite French novelist, Raymond Queneau. When 'Sally Mara'\u003cbr\u003ebegins her diary in January 1934, she is 17 years old and lives with her mother, older brother and\u003cbr\u003eyounger sister in south central Dublin. The everyday language is, of course, English, but she is writing\u003cbr\u003ein 'newly-learned' French to impress her beloved and just departed French tutor, a professional polyglot\u003cbr\u003elinguist. To impress him even more, she decides to learn Irish in order to write a novel of some kind in\u003cbr\u003eIrish. However, the action throughout is determined by Sally's resolution to overcome her ignorance of\u003cbr\u003ethe mysteries of sex and reproduction. \u003cp\u003eThe often sensual and dark humour of Sally Mara's \u003ci\u003eJournal intime\u003c\/i\u003e is founded on language and\u003cbr\u003elanguages, so this translation, while prioritizing clarity, aims to maintain 'Frenchness', tinged of course\u003cbr\u003ewith Dublinese. Surprisingly, for a French author, Irish words and phrases occur throughout; these are\u003cbr\u003enot translated but, like some challenging French phrases, are supported by footnotes.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1949, when Raymond Queneau wrote \u003ci\u003eJournal intime, \u003c\/i\u003e published anonymously under the\u003cbr\u003epseudonym Sally Mara, he was, as always, greatly influenced by James Joyce and fascinated by the\u003cbr\u003elimitations of language. He was also in need of the ready money provided by Éditions du Scorpion, \u003cbr\u003epublishers of erotic and violent pulp fiction, and of \u003ci\u003eJournal intime\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaymond Queneau\u003c\/b\u003e (1903-1976) is a key figure of mid twentieth century French literature. He was\u003cbr\u003ea novelist, poet\/songwriter, screenwriter, encyclopaedist, mathematician and painter. He was also a\u003cbr\u003eliterary innovator and theoretician, and cofounded L'Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (OuLiPo) a\u003cbr\u003efertile association of writers interested in constrained writing techniques. A senior editor with the\u003cbr\u003eprestigious publishers Gallimard, he also mentored aspiring writers (e.g. Marguerite Duras, Patrick\u003cbr\u003eModiano, Nobel 2104) and was a judge for the annual Prix Goncourt. He is especially well known for\u003cbr\u003ethe novel \u003ci\u003eZazie dans le Metro\u003c\/i\u003e (1959) filmed by Louis Malle.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Gosling\u003c\/b\u003e, translator of and commentator on this work has previously published appreciations\u003cbr\u003eof Queneau's Sally Mara works (\u003ci\u003eRaymond Queneau's Dubliners\u003c\/i\u003e, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, \u003cbr\u003e2019; \u003ci\u003eQueneau philologue, Sally romancière\u003c\/i\u003e, Éditions universitaires de Dijon, in press).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50508169609490,"sku":"9781628974607","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bd002613-f9a7-4e68-8559-6ef0a19b39e3.jpg?v=1730873736","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sally-maras-intimate-diary-9781628974607","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}