{"product_id":"sally-maras-intimate-diary","title":"Sally Mara's Intimate Diary","description":"\u003ci\u003eSally Mara’s Intimate Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, dating from 1950, is exceptional; a salacious, black humorous and\r\nmeaningful story by the influential and erudite French novelist, Raymond Queneau. When ‘Sally Mara’\r\nbegins her diary in January 1934, she is 17 years old and lives with her mother, older brother and\r\nyounger sister in south central Dublin. The everyday language is, of course, English, but she is writing\r\nin ‘newly-learned’ French to impress her beloved and just departed French tutor, a professional polyglot\r\nlinguist. To impress him even more, she decides to learn Irish in order to write a novel of some kind in\r\nIrish. However, the action throughout is determined by Sally’s resolution to overcome her ignorance of\r\nthe mysteries of sex and reproduction. \u003cp\u003eThe often sensual and dark humour of Sally Mara’s \u003ci\u003eJournal intime\u003c\/i\u003e is founded on language and\r\nlanguages, so this translation, while prioritizing clarity, aims to maintain ‘Frenchness’, tinged of course\r\nwith Dublinese. Surprisingly, for a French author, Irish words and phrases occur throughout; these are\r\nnot translated but, like some challenging French phrases, are supported by footnotes.\r\nIn 1949, when Raymond Queneau wrote \u003ci\u003eJournal intime,\u003c\/i\u003e published anonymously under the\r\npseudonym Sally Mara, he was, as always, greatly influenced by James Joyce and fascinated by the\r\nlimitations of language. He was also in need of the ready money provided by Éditions du Scorpion,\r\npublishers of erotic and violent pulp fiction, and of \u003ci\u003eJournal intime\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raymond Queneau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":51768857755864,"sku":"9781628974607","price":26.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/products\/sally-maras-intimate-diary","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}