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Title: Exercises in Style
Condition: New
Author: Raymond Queneau
Translator: Barbara Wright
Contributor: Barbara Wright (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781847492418
ISBN: 9781847492418
Publisher: Alma Classics
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Classic Fiction
Release Date: 04/09/2013
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 128mm
Item Weight: 158g
Description: 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.
Release Year: 2013

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