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Exercises in Style - Couverture souple

Queneau, Raymond

 
9780811207898: Exercises in Style
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0811207897 ISBN 13 : 9780811207898
Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1981

Synopsis

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.

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À propos des auteurs

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.

Barbara Wright has translated several Raymond Queneau novels; indeed, as John Updike wrote in The New Yorker, she has waltzed around the floor with the Master so many times by now that she follows his quirky French as if the steps were in English. She has also translated works by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marguerite Duras. She lives in London.

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Éditeur
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
1981
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0811207897
ISBN 13 
9780811207898
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
204
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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