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Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau

Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau

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"A pointless anecdote told in 99 different ways, or a work of genius in a brilliant translation by Barbara Wright. In fact it’s both. Endlessly fascinating and very funny." - Philip Pullman

"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

  • Mô tả

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.