UID:
kobvindex_INT0001215
Format:
xviii, 262 pages
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illustrations, music
,
19 cm
ISBN:
9780811220354
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0811220354
Uniform Title:
Exercices de style
Content:
"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
Note:
Reissue, with additions, of Wright's 1981 translation of the 1st edition (1947) of Exercices de style
Language:
English
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