by Raymond Queneau · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070393572
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«Exercices de style» is a classic of experimental literature by Raymond Queneau, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (224 pages, in French).
Queneau starts from a minimal anecdote: a narrator observes a young man on a bus arguing with another passenger and, later, sees him talking to a friend about his coat; that scene is told ninety-nine times, each with a rhetorical or point-of-view variation, in a play with the possibilities of language.
1995 edition in the Folio Plus collection (no. 7), with complete text and dossier. The work was originally published in 1947.
For general readers interested in narrative experimentation and play with language, including creative writing students.
Raymond Auguste Queneau was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo, notable for his wit and cynical humour.
