Blue Flowers:
A unique novel inspired by the dream of the Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu, who saw himself as a butterfly, Raymond Queneau blends absurdity with philosophy, history with delirium, to present a narrative masterpiece in which the dream alternates between two times, two people, and two realities.
Cedroline, a sixty-year-old man living on a boat in modern Paris, and the Duc d'Hugues, a medieval nobleman, each dream of the other, until timelines intertwine and the boundaries of reality blur.
A work that relentlessly disrupts concepts, making you wonder: Are we the ones dreaming? Or are we ourselves... the dream?
Raymond Queneau is a French novelist and poet, one of the founders of the Oulipo literary group, a former member of the Académie Goncourt, a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival, and director of the French Pleiades Encyclopedia.