Exercises in Style

ISBN-13: 9781847492418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 128 str.

Raymond Queneau

Opis

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. 'Exercises in Style' retells this apparently unremarkable tale 99 times, employing a variety of styles.

Recenzje

Witty, playful, ingenious, it manages to transcend its own sophistication by a sort of verbal slapstick which Miss Wright translated into pure Groucho Marxism. The Guardian

O autorze

Raymond Queneau (1903-76) was a poet, novelist, editor, scholar and mathematician. He is best remembered for Exercises in Style and Zazie in the Metro.