Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau Avant-Garde Madness spanning and subverting the genres

spanning and subverting the genres it encompasses (detective fiction

The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge

and Marguerite Duras

a setting that would later figure in Jansson’s writing for adults and children

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Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau Avant-Garde Madness spanning and subverting the genresExercises in Style by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright ISBN 9780811220354 262 page paperback with flaps from New Directions *** "Queneaus Exercises in Style is a thrilling masterpiece and, in fact, one of the greatest stories in French literature." Vladimir Nabokov A new edition of a French modernist classic a Parisian scene told ninety nine different ways with new material written in homage by the likes of Jonathan Lethem, Rivka Galchen,