{"product_id":"9781628974607","title":"Sally Mara's Intimate Journal","description":"Author: Raymond Queneau\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781628974607\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Jan 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 254 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSally Mara's Intimate Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe often sensual and dark humour of Sally Mara's \u003ci\u003eJournal intime\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eJournal intime,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 ditions du Scorpion,publishers of erotic and violent pulp fiction, and of \u003ci\u003eJournal intime\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920669393054,"sku":"ING-9781628974607","price":25.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781628974607.jpg?v=1782827537","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781628974607","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}