by Raymond Queneau · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806193126
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«Esercizi di stile» is the Italian edition of Raymond Queneau's experimental classic, published by Einaudi in paperback (319 pages, in Italian).
A brief, utterly ordinary daily episode —a banal scene on urban public transport— is repeated here 99 times, each time changing the register, rhetoric, syntax or vocabulary, with games of letter substitution and permutation. The result combines humour with an experiment on the expressive capacities of language; the work has been used in writing workshops and adapted for the theatre.
The French original is reproduced alongside the Italian translation, with introduction and translation by Umberto Eco and edited by Stefano Bartezzaghi. The original work, «Exercices de style», was published in 1947.
For readers interested in narrative experimentation, rhetoric and twentieth-century French literature.
Raymond Auguste Queneau was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo, notable for his wit and cynical humour.
