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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? ... so says the editor ...
1. Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright (Translator)
2. Children of Clay (Sun & Moon Classics, No 100)
by Raymond Queneau, Madeleine Velguth (Translator)
3. Oulipo Laboratory : Texts from the Bibliotheque Oulipienne (Anti-Classics of Dada.)
by Raymond Queneau(Editor), et al
4. The Blue Flowers
by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright (Translator)
5. The Flight of Icarus
by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright (Translator)
6. The Last Days : A Novel
by Raymond Queneau, et al
7. The Sunday of Life : A Novel
by Raymond, Queneau, Barbara Wright (Translator)
8. Odile
by Raymond Queneau, Carol Sanders (Translator)
9. Saint Glinglin
by Raymond Queneau, James Sallis (Translator)
10. Pierrot Mon Ami
by Raymond Queneau
11. We Always Treat Women Too Well : A Novel
by Raymond, Queneau
12. Pierrot Mon Ami ; And, Saint Glinglin : Two Novels
by Raymond Queneau
13. Odile
by Raymond Queneau
14. We Always Treat Women Too Well : A Novel
by Raymond, Queneau
15. Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau
16. Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau
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