Editing Exercises in Style (section)

{{Short description|1947 book by Raymond Queneau}}
{{Infobox book| <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] -->
| name          = Exercises in Style
| title_orig    = Exercices de style
| translator    = [[Barbara Wright (translator)|Barbara Wright]] ([[English language|English]])
| image         = File:ExercicesDeStyle.jpg
| caption = 1947 hardback edition
| illustrator   = [[Mario Prassinos]]
| author        = [[Raymond Queneau]]
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| country       = [[France]]
| language      = [[French language|French]]
| genre         = [[Constrained writing]], [[Fiction]]
| publisher     = [[Gallimard Publishers|Gallimard]]
| release_date  = 1947
| english_release_date = 1958
| media_type    = Print
| pages         =
| isbn          =
}}
'''''Exercises in Style''''' ({{langx|fr|Exercices de style}}), written by [[Raymond Queneau]], 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 literary variations recall the famous 33rd chapter of the 1512 rhetorical guide by [[Desiderius Erasmus]], ''[[Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style]]''.