The Bark Tree (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Raymond Queneau
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Antistory
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: The outskirts of Paris
- Principal Characters: Mme Cloche, Bebe Toutout, Old Taupe, Ernestine, Etienne Marcel, Theo, Pierre Le Grand, Narcense, Saturnin Belhotel
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Alienation, Paris, Violence, War, Death or dying, Adventure, Gossip
- Locales: Paris, France
The Novel
Raymond Queneau’s The Bark Tree is among the first antinovels and,as such, neither attempts to tell a carefully plotted story with beginning,middle, and end, nor strives to be coherent. In addition, it does not include well-developed characters or offer readers any moral or philosophical conclusion about life. The Bark Tree should be considered as an energetic, vibrant assault on convention, in which people are either things or real human beings. In many ways, the novel is a sustained joke about the random, precarious lives people lead and the...
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