Exercises in style
Open Library
ISBN: 9780714537504
author:
Raymond Queneau
translator:
Barbara Wright
publishing house:
John Calder
publication date: 1979
language:
English
number of pages: 197
Exercices de style
Raymond Queneau Barbara Wright
Overview
The plot of Exercises in Style is quite simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told ninety-nine more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many more permutations. This virtuoso set of variations is a linguistic rust-remover, and a guide to literary forms.