Zazie in the Metro

By (author): "Gilbert Adair, Barbara Wright, Raymond Queneau"
Publish Date: 1959
Zazie in the Metro
ISBN0142180041
ISBN139780142180044
AsinZazie in the Metro
CharactersZazie
Original titleZazie dans le métro
Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute. In 1960 Queneau's cult classic was made into a hugely successful film by Louis Malle. Packed full of word play and phonetic games, 'Zazie in the Metro' remains as stylish and witty now as it did back then.