We Always Treat Women Too Well

"Queneau's perversely and relentlessly playful language renders his novel useless as pornography, as history, or as gorefest. Just what are we meant to be taking seriously here? Nothing, we might answer, and yet there is in fact a serious point behind it all....In Queneau's usual slippery manner, the book simply refuses to be any one thing: It is a historical novel with a flippantly skewed vision of its own history, a pornographic novel that can't manage to take sex seriously, a condemnation of pornography that betrays a certain fond relish for its target, a novel of sex and violence with a distracting and unlikely Joyce fixation."Queneau, Raymond is the author of 'We Always Treat Women Too Well', published 2003 under ISBN 9781590170304 and ISBN 159017030X.