A Story as You Like it by Raymond Queneau is one of the unique piece of work I ever read. A story that the reader can chose to suit his or her taste is very clever and funny. By this way the reader can really enjoy as they read a story and create stories that end differently, yet satisfy its reader. Within the literature work by Queneau, readers can change the progress of how the story goes by selecting the given guideline. It reminded me of the uniqueness of the Korean soup opera. In Korea, when a soup opera made a huge hit and very popular, sometimes the script of the soup opera changes dramatically to suit its viewers taste. For example, let’s say if a main female character were to die of a cancer in the original script and, its viewers would say to let her live. The scripter of the soup opera would change the story and satisfy its viewers by letting her live. The graph in page 159 caught my attention, I guess it was because of my major in Binghamton University; Actuarial science. I calculated the ways that the stories can be created if an author chose the form shown in the picture. There were 16 stories can be created within the ‘tree’!!.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
A story as you like it
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I think this "Story As You Like It" says a lot about the choices that a writer has as he is writing. There are so many paths that a story can go down and only one can be chosen. In addition to this, there are a myriad of stylistic choices that can be made, complicating the matter all the more. I would like to see a story like "Story As You Like It," only with the same exact story told in different ways.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree to the comment above. But wouldn't it fun to read a story like "story as you like it" with completely different stories as we follow the choices given by the author?
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