Exercises in Style. Raymond Queneau

Queneau, Raymond

ISBN 10: 184749241X / ISBN 13: 9781847492418

Editore: Alma Classics (edition Special Edition), 2013

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• Titolo: Exercises in Style. Raymond Queneau
• Editore: Alma Classics (edition Special Edition)
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 184749241X
• ISBN 13: 9781847492418
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: Special Edition.
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.