This is a collection of Raymond Queneau’s shorter prose. The works span his career and include short stories, an uncompleted novel, melancholic and absurd essays, occasionally baffling Texticles, a pastiche of Alice in Wonderland , and his only play. Talking dogs, boozing horses, and suicides come head to head with ruminations on the effects of aerodynamics on addition, rhetorical dreams, and a pioneering example of permutational fiction influenced by computer language. Also included is Michel Leiris’s preface from the French edition, an introduction by the translator, and endnotes addressing each piece individually.