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Help, please.

posted 16 years ago by ThePassenger-2
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My sister just mailed me about this film and I've not seen it at all.
This is her question:
I just finished watching a very surreal French comedy on TV, “Zazie dans le metro.”. a rather-adult comedy made from a children’s book. At one point, the protagonist is reciting from what I vaguely remember as the opening of a French novel I read or heard about. “About my education, there is little to tell. … Now, I at the age of military service . … “ then some musings about generations of Parisians living and dying and that those dear to him are “dead” right now, because they are not with him at the moment.

Any idea what book this is from?

You be good, see you tomorrow. I love you. - Alex

[–] gitan-leger 16 years ago

Dont' know about your request, but talking about books you'll have to know that it was not made from "a children's book" but from a novel by a great and famous french writer, Raymond Queneau.

[–] ThePassenger-2 16 years ago

I'll pass that info on to my sister.

http://clearclearwater.com/index.php/Why_we_protest

[–] Tonyed 16 years ago

I think, though I am not certain, that it's from Flaubert's "A Sentimental Education". You could check that out.

[–] ThePassenger-2 16 years ago

Thanks. I've just emailed these two leads to my sister.

http://clearclearwater.com/index.php/Why_we_protest