The Blue Flowers
by Raymond Queneau |
Pierrot Mon Ami
by Raymond Queneau |
Things
by Georges Perec |
Our Beautiful Heroine
by Jacques Roubaud | 
The Great Fire of London
by Jacques Roubaud | 
In the Labyrinth
by Alain Robbe-Grillet |
The Pastoral Symphony
by Andre Gide |
A Man Asleep
by Georges Perec | 
Heartsnatcher
by Boris Vian |
A Man's Place
by Annie Ernaux |
The Sunday of Life
by Raymond Queneau |
Castle to Castle
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 
Witch Grass
by Raymond Queneau |
North
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine |
The Planetarium
by Nathalie Sarraute | 
The Elementary Particles
by Michel Houellebecq | 
The Notebook
by Agota Kristof | 
Nohow On
by Samuel Beckett | 
So Long a Letter
by Mariama Ba | 
The Heart
by Maylis de Kerangal |
The Flight of Icarus is Raymond Queneau's only novel written in the form of a play: seventy-four short scenes, complete with stage directions. Consciously parodying Pirandello and Robbe-Grillet, it begins with a novelist's discovery that his principal character, Icarus by name, has vanished. This in turn, sets off a rash of other such disappearances.