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Here's the complete original -- in French: http://www.oasisfle.com/ebook_oasisfle/exercices%20de%20style%20-%20queneau_raymond.pdf http://www.oasisfle.com/eboo
by vonnik 13y ago
Here's the complete original -- in French:
http://www.oasisfle.com/ebook_oasisfle/exercices%20de%20style%20-%20queneau_raymond.pdf http://www.oasisfle.com/ebook_oasisfle/exercices%20de%20styl...
And for anyone curious, Queneau belonged to Oulipo: "L'Ouvroir de littérature potentielle" or the "workshop of potential literature." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
Other members: Georges Perec and Italo Calvino.
I'm afraid the movement has lost its elan now. The founders are dead. The standard bearers are old Frenchmen, for the most part, living for another age. I know because I have met them. The future is elsewhere.