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Queneau, Raymond : Exercises in Style

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Foreword by Umberto Eco.
With an essay by Italo Calvino.
Illustrations by Stefan Themerson.

"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

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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category: Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English >
publisher: Alma Classics, (2013)
item number / ISBN: 9781847492418
binding: paperback
pages: XIV, 145, [1]
language: English
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