Exercises in Style

infobox Book |
name = Exercises in Style
title_orig = Exercices de style
translator = Barbara Wright (English), Umberto Eco (Italian), Danilo Kiš (Serbian), Rudy Kousbroek (Dutch), Ragnar Hovland (Norwegian), Ludwig Harig and Eugen Helmlé (German), Achilleas Kyriakides (Greek), Armagan Ekici (Turkish), Elizabeta Trpkovska (Macedonian), Patrik Ouředník (Czech) and Jan Gondowicz (Polish).


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author = Raymond Queneau
cover_artist =
country = France
language = French
genre = Constrained writing, Fiction
publisher = ???
release_date = 1947
english_release_date = 1958
media_type = Print
pages = ???
isbn = ???

"Exercises in Style", written by Raymond Queneau (in French, the original title is "Exercices de style") is a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style. In each, the narrator gets on the "S" bus (now no. 84), witnesses an altercation between a man (a zazou) with a long neck and funny hat and another passenger, and then sees the same person two hours later at the Gare St.-Lazare getting advice on adding a button to his overcoat.

The book was translated into English by Barbara Wright in 1958, into Italian by Umberto Eco, into Serbian by Danilo Kiš, into Dutch by Rudy Kousbroek, into Norwegian by Ragnar Hovland, into Finnish by Pentti Salmenranta in 1991, into German by Ludwig Harig and Eugen Helmlé, into Greek by Achilleas Kyriakides, into Czech by Patrik Ouředník, into Turkish by Armağan Ekici in 2003, into Polish by Jan Gondowicz, into Macedonian by Elizabeta Trpkovska in 2005, and into Basque by Xabier Olarra in 2006. Because, by their nature, the various retellings of the story employ fine subtleties of the French language, "translations" into these other languages are adaptations as well as being translations.

A homage in graphic novel form, "" by Matt Madden, was published in 2005.

A typographic interpretation of the german version of "Exercices de Style", [http://marcuskraft.net/portfolio/2006_stiluebungen_01.html "Stilübungen – visuelle Interpretationen"] by the graphic designer [http://marcuskraft.net Marcus Kraft] , was published in 2006.