Exercises in Style Free Download By Raymond Queneau
| Title | : | Exercises in Style |
| Author | : | Raymond Queneau |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 204 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0811207897 |
The plot of Exercises in Style is simple a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus However, this anecdote is told 99 times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many permutations This virtuoso set of variations is a linguistic rust remover, and a guide to literary forms.
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Queneau was born in Le Havre in 1903 and went to Paris when he was 17 For some time he joined Andr Breton s Surrealist group, but after only a brief stint he dissociated himself Now, seeing Queneau s work in retrospect, it seems inevitable The Surrealists tried to achieve a sort of pure expression from the unconscious, without mediation of the author s self aware persona Queneau s texts, on Queneau was born in Le Havre in 1903 and went to Paris when he was 17 For some time he joined Andr Breton s Surrealist group, but after only a brief stint he dissociated himself Now, seeing Queneau s work in retrospect, it seems inevitable The Surrealists tried to achieve a sort of pure expression from the unconscious, without mediation of the author s self aware persona Queneau s texts, on the contrary, are quite deliberate products of the author s conscious mind, of his memory, his intentionality.Although Queneau s novels give an impression of enormous spontaneity, they were in fact painstakingly conceived in every small detail He even once remarked that he simply could not leave to hazard the task of determining the number of chapters of a book Talking about his first novel, Le Chiendent usually translated as The Bark Tree , he pointed out that it had 91 sections, because 91 was the sum of the first 13 numbers, and also the product of two numbers he was particularly fond of 7 and 13 
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The plot of Exercises in Style is simple a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus However, this anecdote is told 99 times, each in
Exercises in Style204 pagesRaymond Queneau
204 pagesRaymond Queneau
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