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Exercises in Style

Paperback • 2013 • English

Exercises in Style

By Raymond Queneau

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About the book

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, while being advised by a friend to have another button sewn onto his overcoat. Exercises in Style retells this apparently unremarkable tale ninety-nine times, employing a variety of styles, ranging from sonnet to cockney to mathematical formula. Too funny to be merely a pedantic thesis, t...Show more

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ISBN

9781847492418

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Exercises in Style

Format

Paperback

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