Exercises in Style (Alma Classics): Raymond Queneau - Softcover

Raymond Queneau; Foreword By Umberto Eco; With An Essay By Italo Calvino; Translated By Barbara Wright

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184749241X ISBN 13: 9781847492418

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2013

Synopsis

It contains an introduction by Umberto Eco and an essay by Italo Calvino. 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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About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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 rust-remover, a guide to literary forms and a demonstration of imagery and inventiveness.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184749241X
• ISBN 13: 9781847492418
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224