Exercises in Style

Name: Exercises in Style
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ISBN: 9780811220354

ISBN-10: 0811220354

ISBN-13: 9780811220354

Edition: 2012

Authors: Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright

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On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it. Later, in another part of town, Queneau sees the man being advised by a friend to sew a new button on his overcoat.Exercises in Style — Queneau’s experimental masterpiece and a hallmark book of the Oulipo literary group — retells this unexceptional tale ninety-nine times, employing the sonnet and the alexandrine, onomatopoeia and Cockney. An Abusive chapter heartily deplores the events; Opera English lends them grandeur. Queneau once said that of all his books, this was the one he most wished to see translated. He offered Barbara…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 1/31/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.20" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English