{{short description|1965 novel by Raymond Queneau}} {{more citations needed|date=November 2024}} {{infobox book | | name = The Blue Flowers | title_orig = Les fleurs bleues | translator = Barbara Wright | image = The Blue Flowers.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Raymond Queneau | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = France | language = French | series = | genre = Novel | publisher = | release_date = 1965 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = | isbn = 0-8112-0945-8 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''The Blue Flowers''''', also known as '''''Between Blue and Blue''''' (original French title: ''Les fleurs bleues''), is a French novel written by Raymond Queneau in 1965.
The English translation is by Barbara Wright, who also translated Queneau's ''Zazie in the Metro''. The Italian translation was by Italo Calvino.
==Premise== Joaquin, Duke of Auge, dreams that he is Cidrolin, living alone on a barge in Paris, while Cidrolin dreams that he is the Duke of Auge, travelling through the history of France. Starting in 1264, he travels through time alongside two talking horses, skipping 175 years each time. They will meet in 1964.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Guida |first1=James |title=The New Yorker Recommends: The Daring Dream Logic of Raymond Queneau’s “The Blue Flowers” |url=https://www.newyorker.com/recommends/read/the-daring-dream-logic-of-the-blue-flowers |website=The New Yorker |access-date=14 November 2024 |date=28 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Manhaval |first1=Séverine |title=Les Fleurs bleues (R. Queneau): Noé ou le voyage au centre du langage |journal=Babel |date=1 July 1999 |issue=3 |pages=41–55 |language=fr |doi=10.4000/babel.1462 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/babel/1462#tocto2n1 |access-date=14 November 2024|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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