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==Other adaptations== * Colin Crumplin's book ''Hommage A Queneau'' featuring drawings of a cup in 100 different styles was published in 1977 by Anthony Stokes. *An homage in [[graphic novel]] form, ''[[99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style]]'' by [[Matt Madden]], was published in 2005. * A [[typographic]] interpretation of the German version of ''Exercices de Style'', [http://marcuskraft.net/portfolio/stiluebungen.html "Stilübungen – visuelle Interpretationen"] by the graphic designer [http://marcuskraft.net Marcus Kraft], was published in 2006. * In [[Croatia]] (when it was part of [[SFR Yugoslavia]]), Tonko Maroević and [[Tomislav Radić]] adapted ''Exercices de Style'' (transferring the plot from the 1940s Paris to modern [[Zagreb]]) into a stage play for two actors, which has been played since 1968. [[Pero Kvrgić]] and Lela Margitić, who have been playing the only two roles since January 1970, hold a Guinness World Record for the Longest Theatrical Run with the Same Cast. They received a plaque in 2009.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-theatrical-run-same-cast | title=Longest theatrical run - same cast | work=guinnessworldrecords.com | publisher=[[Guinness World Records]] | access-date=2024-07-09}}</ref> * Inspired by Queneau's book, the first issue of [https://web.archive.org/web/20150109223812/http://www.uprightdown.com/issue1contents.html uprightdown.com] (2009) presented a single plot, which was retold in different forms and media by multiple participants. * Following the formal example of Queneau, Paul Hoover of the [[United States]] published Sonnet 56 (2009), which consists of 56 stylistic versions of Shakespeare's sonnet 56, including "Villanelle," "Qasida," "Course Description," and "Ballad." * Following the example of Queneau, Bethany M. Brownholtz published [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bethany_Brownholtz/publication/283425541_Exercises_in_Style_21st_Century_Remix/links/5638004c08ae78d01d3951b5.pdf?inViewer=0&pdfJsDownload=0&origin=publication_detail Exercises in Style: 21st Century Remix] (2013), which consists of 40 additional versions, focusing on styles that have emerged over the last 60 years. * The same story was told in more than hundred new styles in Russian by Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Sergey Fedin, Sergey Orlov and others [http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/4468458/] The styles includes combinatorial techniques, contemporary jargons and visuals poems. * The British writer [http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/main/ Ross Sutherland] used techniques adapted from Exercises in Style in the audio story [https://soundcloud.com/ross-sutherland/47-me-versus-the-spar-parts-1-to-7 Me Versus the Spar (Parts 1 to 7)] on the ''[[Imaginary Advice]]'' podcast in 2018. * Turkish writer Ferit Edgü wrote a book titled "Yazmak Eylemi (The Act of Writing)" inspired by Queneau's book in 1980. Edgü tried to do similar style variations in Turkish language by playing with a news article about anarchists forcing local shop owners to close their shops for a whole day to demonstrate their power on the community. * The mathematician Philip Ording published his ''[[99 Variations on a Proof]]'' (2019) of a cubic equation that offers solutions from various perspectives. * The computer scientist Cristina Videira Lopes (https://dl.acm.org/profile/81500647693) wrote a book titled "Exercises in Programming Style" Released November 2015, Publisher(s): Chapman and Hall/CRC,ISBN 9781498766739 From her department at UC Irvine: "In order to give programming styles the proper due, and inspired by Queneau, Lopes decided to embark on the project of writing the exact same computational task in as many styles as she has come across over the years. This project involves two artifacts: a collection of code examples currently hosted in github (https://github.com/crista/exercises-in-programming-style), and a textbook that explains 32 of those code examples line by line."<ref>https://isr.uci.edu/content/exercises-programming-style></ref>
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