Exercises in Style
Author(s): Raymond Queneau
On a crowded bus at midday, the narrator observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man takes it. Later, in another part of town, the man is spotted again, while being advised by a friend to have another button sewn onto his overcoat. Exercises in Style retells this apparently unremarkable tale ninety-nine times, employing a variety of styles, ranging from sonnet to cockney to mathematical formula. Too funny to be merely a pedantic thesis, this virtuoso set of themes and variations is a linguistic rustremover, a guide to literary forms and a demonstration of imagery and inventiveness.
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'Witty, playful, ingenious, it manages to transcend its own sophistication by a sort of verbal slapstick which Miss Wright translated into pure Groucho Marxism.' The Guardian
Raymond Queneau (1903 - 76) was a poet, novelist, editor, scholar and mathematician. He is best remembered for Exercises in Style and Zazie in the Metro.
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- : Alma Books Ltd
- : Alma Classics
- : 0.15785
- : 30 June 2012
- : 1.2 Centimeters X 13.5 Centimeters X 19.9 Centimeters
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Raymond Queneau
- : Hardback
- : Special edition
- : English
- : 848.91207
- : 224
- : FC
- : ill