 | Exercises in Style, Cover may vary
By Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright (Translator)
ISBN: 9780811207898
Published: 1981
Number of Pages: 204
Edition: 2nd
Binding: Paperback |
Pricing & Availability:Additional Details:
Product Type: Book
Publisher: New Directions
Description: A twentysomething bus rider with a long, skinny neck and a goofy hat accuses another passenger of trampling his feet; he then grabs an empty seat. Later, in a park, a friend encourages the same man to reorganize the buttons on his overcoat. In Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, this determinedly pointless scenario unfolds 99 times in twice as many pages. Originally published in 1947 (in French), these terse variations on a theme are a wry lesson in creativity. The story is told as an official letter, as a blurb for a novel, as a sonnet, and in "Opera English." It's told onomatopoetically, philosophically, telegraphically, and mathematically. The result, as translator Barbara Wright writes in her introduction, is "a profound exploration into the possibilities of language." I'd say it's a refresher course of sorts, but it's more like a graduate seminar. After all, how many of us are familiar with terms such as litote, alexandrine, apheresis, and epenthesis in the first place? |
Library of Congress Control Number
- LC control Number:
80026102 - LC control Number:
80026102 //r83 - LC control Number:
80026102 - LC control Number:
80026102 //r83:
06916616International Standard Book Number:
0811207897 (pbk.)Language Code
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title:
eng - Language code of text/sound track or separate title:
engfre - Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text:
freLibrary of Congress Call Number
- Classification number:
PQ2633.U43 - Item number:
E93 1981Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- Edition number:
19 - Classification number:
848/.91207Main Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Queneau, Raymond, - Dates associated with a name:
1903-1976 - Dates associated with a name:
1903-1976.Uniform Title:
Exercices de style.:
Exercices de style. English - Language of a work:
EnglishTitle Statement
- Title:
Exercises in style / - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
Raymond Queneau ; translated by Barbara Wright - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
Raymond Queneau ; translated by Barbara Wright.Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
- Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
New York : - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
New Directions, - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
1981 - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
1981.Physical Description
- Extent:
197 p. : - Other physical details:
ill. ; - Dimensions:
20 cm - Dimensions:
20 cm.General Note:
Originally published: London : Gaberbocchus, 1958.:
Translation of 1st ed. (1947) of Exercices de style:
Translation of 1st ed. (1947) of Exercices de style.Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
- Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Experimental fiction, French - Form subdivision:
Translations into English.Added Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Queneau, Raymond, - Dates associated with a name:
1903-1976. - Title of a work:
Exercises in style
