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Exercises in style / Raymond Queneau ; translated by Barbara Wright.
Van Pelt Library PQ2633.U43 E93 1981
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Queneau, Raymond, 1903-1976.
- Standardized Title:
- Exercices de style. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 197 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 1981.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Translation of 1st ed. (1947) of Exercices de style.
- ISBN:
- 0811207897
- OCLC:
- 6916616
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