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Esercizi di stile By Raymond Queneau

Esercizi di stile View By Raymond Queneau

Title:Esercizi di stile
Author:Raymond Queneau
Format:Paperback
Page:237 pages
ISBN:8806562002

Un episodio di vita quotidiana, di sconcertante banalit , e novantanove variazioni sul tema, in cui la storia viene ridetta mettendo alla prova tutte le figure retoriche, i diversi generi letterari dall epico al drammatico, dal racconto gotico alla lirica giapponese , giocando con sostituzioni lessicali, frantumando la sintassi, permutando l ordine delle lettere alfabetic Un episodio di vita quotidiana, di sconcertante banalit , e novantanove variazioni sul tema, in cui la storia viene ridetta mettendo alla prova tutte le figure retoriche, i diversi generi letterari dall epico al drammatico, dal racconto gotico alla lirica giapponese , giocando con sostituzioni lessicali, frantumando la sintassi, permutando l ordine delle lettere alfabetiche Un effetto comico travolgente, che gi si prestato a realizzazioni teatrali, ma al tempo stesso un esperimento sulle possibilit del linguaggio che pu essere usato, come gi avvenuto, per fini didattici


about Author

Queneau was born in Le Havre in 1903 and went to Paris when he was 17 For some time he joined Andr Breton s Surrealist group, but after only a brief stint he dissociated himself Now, seeing Queneau s work in retrospect, it seems inevitable The Surrealists tried to achieve a sort of pure expression from the unconscious, without mediation of the author s self aware persona Queneau s texts, on Queneau was born in Le Havre in 1903 and went to Paris when he was 17 For some time he joined Andr Breton s Surrealist group, but after only a brief stint he dissociated himself Now, seeing Queneau s work in retrospect, it seems inevitable The Surrealists tried to achieve a sort of pure expression from the unconscious, without mediation of the author s self aware persona Queneau s texts, on the contrary, are quite deliberate products of the author s conscious mind, of his memory, his intentionality.Although Queneau s novels give an impression of enormous spontaneity, they were in fact painstakingly conceived in every small detail He even once remarked that he simply could not leave to hazard the task of determining the number of chapters of a book Talking about his first novel, Le Chiendent usually translated as The Bark Tree , he pointed out that it had 91 sections, because 91 was the sum of the first 13 numbers, and also the product of two numbers he was particularly fond of 7 and 13



thumbnailTitle: Esercizi di stile
Posted by:Raymond Queneau
Published :2016-04-07T19:43+01:00
Un episodio di vita quotidiana, di sconcertante banalit , e novantanove variazioni sul tema, in cui la storia viene ridetta mettendo alla prova tutte
Esercizi di stile
237 pagesRaymond Queneau

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