Exercises in Style
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
184749241X
ISBN-13
9781847492418
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd
Imprint
Alma Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 4th, 2013
Print length
160 Pages
Weight
150 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 13.10 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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'A pointless anecdote told in 99 different ways, or a work of genius in a brilliant translation by Barbara Wright. In fact it's both. Endlessly fascinating and very funny.' Philip Pullman This special edition contains a foreword by Umberto Eco with an essay by Italo Calvino.
On a crowded bus at midday, the narrator observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man takes it. Later, in another part of town, the man is spotted again, while being advised by a friend to have another button sewn onto his overcoat. Exercises in Style retells this apparently unremarkable tale ninety-nine times, employing a variety of styles, ranging from sonnet to cockney to mathematical formula. Too funny to be merely a pedantic thesis, this virtuoso set of themes and variations is a linguistic rustremover, a guide to literary forms and a demonstration of imagery and inventiveness.
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