by Raymond Queneau · French and European Publications Inc · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070346851
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«Exercices de style», by Raymond Queneau, is a work of narrative experimentation in paperback (224 pages, in French).
The narrator travels on a bus and notices a long-necked young man who complains that another passenger is pushing him; later he sees him again at Place Saint-Lazare. This minimal anecdote is told ninety-nine times with variations in register, vocabulary and syntax, until language itself becomes the book's true subject.
It belongs to the Folio Plus Classique collection (no. 115) and includes a dossier by Nicolas Saulais on the Oulipo and Queneau's writing techniques, as well as an image reading by Sophie Barthélémy.
Edition aimed at the French school curriculum, suitable for literature students and readers interested in the Oulipo and narrative play.
Raymond Auguste Queneau was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo, notable for his wit and cynical humour.
