Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207898
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Queneau uses a variety of literary styles and forms in ninety-nine exercises which retell the same story about a minor brawl aboard a bus.
Exercises in Style
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207898
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Queneau uses a variety of literary styles and forms in ninety-nine exercises which retell the same story about a minor brawl aboard a bus.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207898
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Queneau uses a variety of literary styles and forms in ninety-nine exercises which retell the same story about a minor brawl aboard a bus.
Exercises in Style
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847490735
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847490735
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb
Exercises in Style
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
ISBN: 9780714542386
Category : Experimental fiction, French
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
ISBN: 9780714542386
Category : Experimental fiction, French
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Exercices de Style
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Exercises in Style
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811220885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A new edition of a French modernist classic - a Parisian scene told ninety-nine different ways - with new material written in homage by the likes of Jonathan Lethem, Rivka Galchen, and many more. On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it. Later, in another part of town, Queneau sees the man being advised by a friend to sew a new button on his overcoat. Exercises in Style — Queneau’s experimental masterpiece and a hallmark book of the Oulipo literary group — retells this unexceptional tale ninety-nine times, employing the sonnet and the alexandrine, onomatopoeia and Cockney. An “Abusive” chapter heartily deplores the events; “Opera English” lends them grandeur. Queneau once said that of all his books, this was the one he most wished to see translated. He offered Barbara Wright his “heartiest congratulations,” adding: “I have always thought that nothing is untranslatable.Here is new proof.” To celebrate the 65th anniversary of the 1947 French publication of Exercises de Style, New Directions has asked several writers to contribute new exercises as a tribute. Tantalizing examples include Jonathan Lethem’s “Cyberpunk,” Harry Mathew’s “Phonetic Eros,” and Frederic Tuten’s “Beatnik” exercises. This edition also retains Barbara Wright’s original introduction and reminiscence of working on this book — a translation that in 2008 was ranked first on the Author’s Society’s list of “The 50 Outstanding Translations of the Last 50 Years.”
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811220885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A new edition of a French modernist classic - a Parisian scene told ninety-nine different ways - with new material written in homage by the likes of Jonathan Lethem, Rivka Galchen, and many more. On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it. Later, in another part of town, Queneau sees the man being advised by a friend to sew a new button on his overcoat. Exercises in Style — Queneau’s experimental masterpiece and a hallmark book of the Oulipo literary group — retells this unexceptional tale ninety-nine times, employing the sonnet and the alexandrine, onomatopoeia and Cockney. An “Abusive” chapter heartily deplores the events; “Opera English” lends them grandeur. Queneau once said that of all his books, this was the one he most wished to see translated. He offered Barbara Wright his “heartiest congratulations,” adding: “I have always thought that nothing is untranslatable.Here is new proof.” To celebrate the 65th anniversary of the 1947 French publication of Exercises de Style, New Directions has asked several writers to contribute new exercises as a tribute. Tantalizing examples include Jonathan Lethem’s “Cyberpunk,” Harry Mathew’s “Phonetic Eros,” and Frederic Tuten’s “Beatnik” exercises. This edition also retains Barbara Wright’s original introduction and reminiscence of working on this book — a translation that in 2008 was ranked first on the Author’s Society’s list of “The 50 Outstanding Translations of the Last 50 Years.”
Exercises de style
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : fr
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : fr
Pages : 160
Book Description
Exercices de style
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary style
Languages : fr
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary style
Languages : fr
Pages : 172
Book Description
Queneau, Exercices de Style
Author: Teresa Bridgeman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
99 Ways to Tell a Story
Author: Matt Madden
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1596090782
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
99 Ways to Tell a Story is a series of engrossing one-page comics that tell the same story ninety-nine different ways. Inspired by Raymond Queneau’s 1947 Exercises in Style, a mainstay of creative writing courses, Madden’s project demonstrates the expansive range of possibilities available to all storytellers. Readers are taken on an enlightening tour—sometimes amusing, always surprising—through the world of the story. Writers and artists in every media will find Madden’s collection especially useful, even revelatory. Here is a chance to see the full scope of opportunities available to the storyteller, each applied to a single scenario: varying points of view, visual and verbal parodies, formal reimaginings, and radical shuffling of the basic components of the story. Madden’s amazing series of approaches will inspire storytellers to think through and around obstacles that might otherwise prevent them from getting good ideas onto the page. 99 Ways to Tell a Story provides a model that will spark productive conversations among all types of creative people: novelists, screenwriters, graphic designers, and cartoonists.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1596090782
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
99 Ways to Tell a Story is a series of engrossing one-page comics that tell the same story ninety-nine different ways. Inspired by Raymond Queneau’s 1947 Exercises in Style, a mainstay of creative writing courses, Madden’s project demonstrates the expansive range of possibilities available to all storytellers. Readers are taken on an enlightening tour—sometimes amusing, always surprising—through the world of the story. Writers and artists in every media will find Madden’s collection especially useful, even revelatory. Here is a chance to see the full scope of opportunities available to the storyteller, each applied to a single scenario: varying points of view, visual and verbal parodies, formal reimaginings, and radical shuffling of the basic components of the story. Madden’s amazing series of approaches will inspire storytellers to think through and around obstacles that might otherwise prevent them from getting good ideas onto the page. 99 Ways to Tell a Story provides a model that will spark productive conversations among all types of creative people: novelists, screenwriters, graphic designers, and cartoonists.
Witch Grass
Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow comes to life, precipitating a series of comic run-ins among a range of disreputable and heartwarming characters living on the sleazy outskirts of the city of lights. Witch Grass (previously titled The Bark Tree) is a philosophical farce, an epic comedy, a mesmerizing book about the daily grind that is an enchantment itself.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow comes to life, precipitating a series of comic run-ins among a range of disreputable and heartwarming characters living on the sleazy outskirts of the city of lights. Witch Grass (previously titled The Bark Tree) is a philosophical farce, an epic comedy, a mesmerizing book about the daily grind that is an enchantment itself.