Describe Books During Exercises in Style
| Original Title: | Exercices de style |
| ISBN: | 0811207897 (ISBN13: 9780811207898) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Paris(France) |
Raymond Queneau
Paperback | Pages: 204 pages Rating: 4.09 | 8138 Users | 631 Reviews
Details Epithetical Books Exercises in Style
| Title | : | Exercises in Style |
| Author | : | Raymond Queneau |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 204 pages |
| Published | : | February 17th 1981 by New Directions (first published 1947) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Short Stories. Language. Writing. European Literature. French Literature |
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MetaFrom what point of view should I review the book? Evidently: from all possible points of view.
Snobbish
Needless to say, I am reading the original French edition. I can hardly believe that his delicate linguistic irony would survive translation into English. Quelle horreur!
Vulgar
I laughed until I wet myself. Well, I should know better than to read this kind of book in the bathroom.
Pedantic
If nothing else, very educational. I have already learned the names of two figures of speech I didn't previously know.
Anxious
Wait... maybe someone else has already done this joke? Let me check the reviews. Oh, thank GoodReads, they haven't!
Pessimistic
The idea is certainly amusing at first. But I doubt he'll be able to keep it up for 99 different versions.
Grudging
Alright... this isn't as easy as one first thinks. I'm not even up to double figures, and I'm already running out of ideas. He was a smart guy.
Minimalist
Unique.
Conscience-stricken
I'm doing this? I should be working! But he is quite inspiring.
Practical
I will put the book on the coffee table, and read a couple of pages every now and then. I don't think you're meant to go cover-to-cover. Also, living in Cambridge as we do, I am sure that at least half our visitors will enjoy leafing through it.
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Ratings: 4.09 From 8138 Users | 631 ReviewsCriticize Epithetical Books Exercises in Style
Pearls before a swine? Perhaps.It definitely takes a lot of talent for someone to tell one completely unremarkable story 99 times and still make a fun and readable book out of it. What Queneau (and the translator) has done here is really clever work, no doubt. And I can imagine this whole exercise must have been very amusing for him. But that doesn't mean reading it will be just as enjoyable as writing it was.**These are exercises in writing in English (originally French). I do have some workingOnly one book has ever changed my life (god, if only things were so simple that a book could change your life!) and that is Joyces Ulysses, and that only in terms of my ideas of dedication and rigor. It certainly didnt unearth profound aspects of my personality that until that point were latent, it didnt give me any guiding path in life to tread, it didnt suddenly instill value into things that I before considered to be without value. What it primarily did was to show me the results of
Whenever I sit in a Café with an espresso and a croissant, I sometimes like to think that Georges Perec once sat exactly where I am sitting. Whenever on the Métro, I am somehow reminded of Luc Besson's 1985 film Subway. Whenever I climb into a taxi, it's just in the hope that the driver isn't some knife wielding maniac. The next time I happen to hop onto a bus, then there is every chance, Exercises in Style will immediately come to mind. Not 99 times though, just the once. Briefly tied in with
Thoughtful My reaction to books like Raymond Queneaus Exercises In Style is comparable to my reaction when faced with certain works of conceptual, or modern, art, such as, for example, Martin Kippenbergers Wittgenstein. What I mean by this is that the enjoyment I derive from them is superficial, is immediate but not long-lasting; in fact, I tend to find equal or greater enjoyment in the concepts or ideas being described to me as I do in experiencing them myself.To my mind, the most basic
This was The Well-Tempered Clavier, but in writing. Given its status and how loved this book seems to be on GR, I feel somewhat like its an epic F.A.I.L on my part to not have been blown away by it. But seriously, guys, I dont get it. Its clever, Ill give you that. Other than that, its mostly gimmicky, sometimes amusing, and occasionally interesting. I liked the episodes rewritten as told by a yokel or in mangled French as spoken by an English person (amusing), as well as the episodes rewritten
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