by Raymond Queneau · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070373635
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«Exercices de style» is Raymond Queneau's work of experimental literature, published by Gallimard in paperback (158 pages, in French).
A narrator recounts a brief encounter with a young man with a long neck and a hat with a braid on a bus, and later sees him talking to a friend who advises him to do up his coat button. That minimal scene is repeated ninety-nine times, each with a different narrative style, turning the book into a playful catalogue of the possibilities of language.
Work originally published in 1947. This French edition belongs to Gallimard's Folio collection, number 1363.
Interesting for readers of experimental fiction, French literature and those curious about wordplay.
Raymond Auguste Queneau was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo, notable for his wit and cynical humour.
