Exercises in style
By: Raymond Queneau ; translated by Barbara Wright
Contributors: Wright, Barbara, 1915-2009
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780811220354
Work titles: Exercices de style
Notes: Reissue, with additions, of Wright's 1981 translation of the 1st ed. (1947) of Exercices de style.

"Queneu's experimental masterpiece and a hallmark book of the Oulipo literary group, retells . . . [an] unexceptional tale ninety-nine times, employing the sonnet and the alexandrine, onomatopoeia, and Cockney  [etc.] . . . .  To celebrate the 65th anniversary of the 1947 French publication of Exercises de Style, New Directions has asked several writers to contribute new exercises . . . .  This edition also retains Barbara Wright's original introduction and reminiscence of working on this book"--Publisher's note.

Includes bibliographical references.