Exercises in Style

by Raymond Queneau

Barbara Wright (Translator)

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The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99 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.
  • ISBN10 0811207897
  • ISBN13 9780811207898
  • Publish Date 1 February 1981 (first published December 1958)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 204
  • Language English