On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately.
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..
Tantalizing examples include Jonathan Lethem\'s Cyberpunk, Harry Mathew\'s Phonetic Eros, and Frederic Tuten\'s Beatnik exercises.
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.
He offered Barbara Wright his heartiest congratulations, adding: I have always thought that nothing is untranslatable.
Here is new proof.
Queneau once said that of all his books, this was the one he most wished to see translated.
An Abusive chapter heartily deplores the events
Opera English lends them grandeur.
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.
Later, in another part of town, Queneau sees the man being advised by a friend to sew a new button on his overcoat.
When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it.
On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately
