In this Introduction, we will outline how Raymond Queneau’s novel Zazie dans le métro (1959) was received during 1959, the early 1960s and over the course of the last decades. Our attention will focus on how the Anglophone world reacted initially to Zazie in the original French, but then increasingly to Zazie in Louis Malle’s film adaptation in 1960 and to Zazie in translation. It is also instructive to remind ourselves, as background to the controversial cultural export that Zazie would become, of the response of critics and commentators in France. We will also assess the resurgence of interest in Zazie across a range of pluridisciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts. These analyses will finally point us towards reasons for the novel’s enduring legacy, and towards the strands of enquiry into Zazie that figure in this current ‘anniversary’ Special issue. Raymond Queneau (1903–76) was a polymathic figure in French literary circles during the mid-twentieth century. He was a novelist, poet, critic and mathematician. After an uneventful early life (university in Paris, military service), he joined the publishing house Gallimard as a reader in 1938. While at Gallimard, he edited and published Alexandre Kojève’s lectures on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Queneau had been a student of Kojève during the 1930s). In 1950 he entered the Collège de Pataphysique—founded in 1948 to progress the science of imaginary solutions—which would prove critical in his intellectual and literary development, and by 1960, he had co-founded the Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (Oulipo). However, it is as an author that Queneau came to prominence in France with the publication of essentially two texts. The first was Exercices de style (1947) which tells the simple story of a man seeing the same stranger twice in one day. The basic anecdote is re-told in ninety-nine different ways, demonstrating the variety of styles in which storytelling can take place, sometimes as parodies. The second work was Zazie dans le métro (1959), a popular classic narrating the adventures of a girl called Zazie during a visit to her uncle in Paris. Zazie would become the most celebrated of Queneau’s novels. Adapted for cinema in 1960 by New Wave film director Louis Malle (1932–95), and despite its apparent easy readability and humorous tone, the novel is notoriously complex, mixing social and political satire, philosophical commentary, linguistic analysis, and literary game-playing. Zazie the novel is translated into many languages and the film is now widely available on DVD.

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介绍。Zazie@60：英语和法语世界中的文化奉献

在本介绍中，我们将概述雷蒙德·奎诺 (Raymond Queneau) 的小说 Zazie dans le métro (1959) 在 1959 年、1960 年代初期和过去几十年中如何被接受。我们的注意力将集中在英语世界最初如何对法语原版中的 Zazie 做出反应，但随后越来越多地对 Louis Malle 1960 年改编的电影中的 Zazie 以及翻译中的 Zazie 做出反应。作为 Zazie 将成为有争议的文化输出的背景，提醒我们自己法国评论家和评论家的反应也是有益的。我们还将评估在一系列多学科和跨学科背景下对 Zazie 兴趣的复苏。这些分析最终将让我们找到这部小说经久不衰的原因，以及在当前的“周年纪念”特刊中对 Zazie 进行的一系列调查。雷蒙德·克诺 (Raymond Queneau) (1903–76) 是 20 世纪中叶法国文坛的博学人物。他是小说家、诗人、评论家和数学家。在过着平静的早年生活（巴黎大学，服兵役）后，他于 1938 年作为读者加入了伽利玛出版社。在伽利马期间，他编辑并出版了亚历山大·科耶夫关于黑格尔的《精神现象学》的讲座（奎诺曾是科耶夫的学生） 1930 年代）。1950 年，他进入了 1948 年成立的形而上学学院（College de Pataphysique），旨在推进想象解决方案的科学发展，这对他的智力和文学发展至关重要，到 1960 年，他与他人共同创立了 Ouvroir de littérature potentielle（Oulipo）。然而，正是作为一名作家，Queneau 在法国声名鹊起，主要是出版了两篇文章。第一个是 Exercices de style (1947)，它讲述了一个男人在一天内两次见到同一个陌生人的简单故事。基本的轶事以九十九种不同的方式重新讲述，展示了讲故事的各种风格，有时是模仿。第二部作品是 Zazie dans le métro (1959)，这是一部广受欢迎的经典作品，讲述了一个名叫 Zazie 的女孩在拜访她在巴黎的叔叔时的冒险经历。Zazie 将成为 Queneau 最着名的小说。1960 年由新浪潮电影导演路易斯·马勒 (Louis Malle，1932-95 年) 改编成电影，尽管它明显易读且语气幽默，但这部小说以复杂着称，混合了社会和政治讽刺、哲学评论、语言分析、和文学游戏。Zazie 这部小说被翻译成多种语言，这部电影现在可以在 DVD 上广泛使用。