About the book: 2001 / UDC 82/89 BBK 84.4 Fr K35 Translation from French Compilation, translation and notes by Valery Kislov Afterword by Pascal Letelier, Valery Kislov Artist Mikhail Zanko Keno, Raymond Sally Mara: It’s impossible to be friendly with them. The intimate diary of Sally Mara / Compiler and translator from French. V. Kislov. Afterword by P. Letelier and V. Kislov. - St. Petersburg: Publishing house "Symposium", 2001. - 366 p. ISBN 5-89091-140-6 The legacy of the famous French writer Raymond Queneau (1903–1976) includes three works he published under the pseudonym of the (ostensibly) existing Irish writer Sally Mara. Two of them - the historically not entirely correct novel “You Can’t Get Good With Them” (1947), dedicated to the Dublin Easter Rising of 1916, and the tragic autobiography “The Intimate Diary of Sally Mara” (1950) - are included in this book. “The Fog Above” Dublin was weakening, and the smell of Guinness was thickening.” About this (and not only about this) are records full of the most frank confessions and imbued with the spirit of the dramatic everyday life of the long-suffering Green Island. It is still not entirely clear who their author is. The mysterious Irish woman Sally Mara, who either never existed or is soon celebrating her 85th birthday? Or the world-famous French writer Raymond Queneau, a member of the Goncourt Academy, the Great Guardian of the Preposition at the Chamber of Imperceptible Executions of the Pataphysical College? Let the reader try to figure it out for himself. © Symposium Publishing House, 2001 © V. Kislov, compilation, translation, notes, 2001 © P. Letelier, V. Kislov, afterword, 2001 © M. Zanko, design, 2001 ® M. Zanko & Symposium Publishing House: series "Ex Libris", industrial design. RF patent № 42170