Exercises in Style
On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it. Later, in another part of town, Queneau sees the man being advised by a friend to sew a new button on his overcoat.Exercises in Style - Queneau's experimental masterpiece and a hallmark book of the Oulipo literary group - retells this unexceptional tale ninety-nine times, employing the sonnet and the alexandrine, onomatopoeia and Cockney. An Abusive chapter heartily deplores the events; Opera English lends them grandeur. Queneau once said that of all his books, this was the one he m…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Wright, Barbara (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2035-4
- EAN: 9780811220354
- Produktnummer: 19432565
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 262 S.
- Masse: H18.0 cm x B12.3 cm x D2.5 cm 262 g
- Gewicht: 262
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 - 22 J.
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Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) is acknowledged as one of the most influential of modern French writers, having helped determine the shape of twentieth-century French literature, especially in his role with the Oulipo, a group of authors that includes Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, and Harry Mathews, among others.
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