Exercises in Style

Paperback, 197 pages

English language

Published Dec. 28, 1998 by Calder Publications.

ISBN:
978-0-7145-4238-6
Copied ISBN!
OCLC Number:
48479641

View on OpenLibrary

View on Inventaire

3 stars (3 reviews)

Exercises in Style (French: Exercices de style), written by Raymond Queneau, is a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style. In each, the narrator gets on the "S" bus (now no. 84), witnesses an altercation between a man (a zazou) with a long neck and funny hat and another passenger, and then sees the same person two hours later at the Gare St-Lazare getting advice on adding a button to his overcoat. The literary variations recall the famous 33rd chapter of the 1512 rhetorical guide by Desiderius Erasmus, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style.

7 editions

Subjects

  • Modern fiction
  • Usage guides
  • French
  • Reference
  • European - French
  • Writing Skills